Causes
If we consider vascular dementia [12] in comparison with Alzheimer’s disease, it can be noted that the development of vascular dementia is caused for many reasons, the main ones of which are: myocardial infarction, congenital heart defects, type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus, and coronary heart disease. In the case of Alzheimer’s disease, it is impossible to isolate the cause of its occurrence. Doctors say that the disease can be inherited, but a clear cause of the onset of the disease has not yet been identified.
The most common conditions that cause dementia are:
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Alzheimer’s disease (accounts for about 70% of all manifestations of dementia)
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Parkinson’s disease
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Vascular dementia (the result of a cerebrovascular accident due to stroke – 20% of dementia manifestations)
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Frontal-temporal degeneration (Pick’s disease)
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Huntington’s disease (Huntington’s chorea)
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Diffuse Lewy body disease
These diseases were combined into one group called “neurodegenerative diseases” because of the similarity in many ways.