Preventative health measures and improved treatments for cardiovascular disease and strokes mean that, unlike Alzheimer's disease, the rates of vascular dementia are actually decreasing.

It is important to seek emergency treatment for a stroke to prevent brain damage and dementia.

Other major forms of VaD of the so called subcortical type are;

*Binswanger disease , a slow progressive type of vascular dementia associated with chronic high blood pressure.

 *Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) a genetic disorder affecting chromosome 19, it is a slow progressive dementia affecting adults in their middle 40s.

*Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA).

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