PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | heart disease |
| Phenotype | C0011269|vascular dementia |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22540409 | It is now well-recognized that many of the same risk factors that cause heart disease also can lead to vascular dementia in the elderly [56] and microvascular brain damage – the result of age-associated alteration in large arteries and the progressive mismatch of their cross-talk with small cerebral arteries – a potent risk factor for cognitive decline and the onset of dementia in older individuals [57]. |
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