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Oct 2026
The role of vascular factors in Alzheimer's disease: from cerebrovascular pathological mechanisms to blood biomarkers
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common dementia, and post-mortem and imaging studies consistently demonstrate that vascular pathology coexists with plaques and tangles in most AD brains. Vascular risk factors—hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidaemia, and atrial fibrillation—damage the neurovascular unit, disrupt the...
De-Gang Luo, Xiang-Wei Lv, Huai-Qian Mu et al.
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