• Vascular dementia causes around one in 10 dementia cases in the United States.
• It is often caused by cerebral small vessel disease, which damages cells lining the blood vessels in the brain.
• The symptoms are very similar to other forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
• Currently, diagnosis relies on neuroimaging to identify the damage to the blood vessels.
• A new study has shown that increased levels of a biomarker in blood plasma could help identify vascular dementia in its early stages.

By Katharine Lang on February 27, 2023 — Fact checked by Ferdinand Lali, Ph.D.

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