The vascular hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease: bench to bedside and beyond.

The vascular hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) which we first proposed in 1993, has become a useful concept in identifying vascular risk factors for AD or vascular dementia that can be modified t

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