Vascular Cognitive Impairment Life Expectancy. My grandfather recently passed away of vascular dementia and he had been severely affected for the last 10-12 years or so. Dementia includes a heterogeneous group of disorders the most common being. The symptoms of vascular dementia can be similar to those of Alzheimers and both conditions can occur at the same time a condition called mixed dementia. In our study cohort 70-year-old men without dementia had 137 years of remaining life column A while 70-year old men with AD had 68 years of remaining life on average column B.
He also had a plethora of other conditions accompanying his vas dementia gangrenous gallbladder kidney disease cancers almost complete blindness diabetes etc To be completely honest his conditions were largely due to his poor diet and his refusal to take good care. Aging is accompanied by changes in tissue structure often resulting in functional decline. For example aging within blood vessels contributes to a decrease in blood flow to important organs potentially leading to organ atrophy and loss of function. Vascular cognitive impairment defines alterations in cognition ranging from subtle deficits to full-blown dementia attributable to cerebrovascular causes. Cognitive impairment even when detected at an early mild stage is a significant predictor of decreased life expectancy according to a long-term. At age 70 years men with vascular dementia or dementia with Lewy bodiesParkinsons had life expectancy of 47 years which corresponded to 103 years of life lost compared to the general population.
Aging is accompanied by changes in tissue structure often resulting in functional decline.
Large numbers of people with cognitive impairment and dementia is becoming one of the most important medical and social problems worldwide. Assuming no change in age-specific prevalence of cognitive impairment between 1970 and 1993 and the age-specific mortality rates actually experienced in 1970 when total life expectancy at age 70 was 22 years less than in 1993 the simulated length of life with cognitive impairment at age 70 would have been 11 years or4 years less than in 1993. He also had a plethora of other conditions accompanying his vas dementia gangrenous gallbladder kidney disease cancers almost complete blindness diabetes etc To be completely honest his conditions were largely due to his poor diet and his refusal to take good care. Greater population life expectancy is one explanation for increased incidence of cognitive impairment cases. With proper care support and love vascular dementia life expectancy may increase because many patients have managed to live up to a ripe old age. In the central nervous system cerebral vascular aging can lead to loss of the integrity of the blood-brain barrier eventually resulting in cognitive.