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1. Introduction
2. Talk outline (1)
3. Cerebrovascular disease: realities and trends (1)
4. Disability-adjusted life years (DALY)
5. DALYs for individual neurological disorders
6. Projected burden of stroke
7. Acute vascular events
8. Cerebrovascular disease: realities and trends (2)
9. Lifetime risk of stroke and dementia
10. Framingham offspring study
11. Increased risk for stroke and function impairment
12. Incidence of first silent stroke
13. Prevalence of infarcts with age
14. Silent infarcts and cognitive decline
15. Cerebral microhemorrhage
16. Microbleeds and cognition
17. Coexistence of CV and Alzheimer disease
18. Epidemiological evidence
19. Post-stroke cognitive impairment
20. Pathological evidence
21. The nuns study
22. Preliminary data and survivability
23. Amyloid deposits in the brain
24. Cerebrovascular disease: realities and trends (3)
25. Joint effect of stroke and APOE-4 on dementia risk
26. Common standards for cognitive impairment
27. Vascular related risk/protective factors
28. Lifetime risk for developing hypertension (1)
29. Lifetime risk for developing hypertension (2)
30. Preventing cancer, CV disease and diabetes
31. Benefits of combination therapy
32. Typical distribution of a risk factor
33. Community based intervention trial
34. A prioritized approach
35. Keeping up without staying up
36. Keeping up without staying up (2)
37. Stroke journal
38. Conclusion
39. Acknowledgements

Topics Covered

• The growing burden of stroke
• Silent strokes, subtle thieves of mind
• A comprehensive approach to prevention
• A prioritized approach to stroke
• Keeping up without staying up

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Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology

Talk Citation

Hachinski, V. (2008, October 27). Cerebrovascular disease: introduction and perspective [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 15, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/CMPY9509.
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Publication History

• Published on October 27, 2008

Financial Disclosures

• Professor Vladimir Hachinski has no commercial/financial relationships to disclose