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Vascular dementia

Symptoms

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Symptoms of vascular dementia include confusion, slow thinking and changes in your mood or behaviour.

There's no cure for vascular dementia, but a healthy lifestyle and medicines for related problems, such as high blood pressure, may help slow it down.

Vascular dementia is caused by reduced blood flow to the brain. It can be a result of a stroke, or the narrowing of the blood vessels in the brain.

Vascular dementia is a common type of dementia caused by reduced blood flow to the brain.

Page last reviewed: 08/06/2023
Next review due: 08/06/2026