Cerebral microvascular disease and its associated cognitive dysfunction research progress

Abstract

Cerebral small vessel disease is a kind of aging cerebral microvascular disease, accounting for 83.8% of all cerebrovascular diseases, and gradually become an important disease affecting human health. When cerebral small vascular disease is in the early stage, the damage to cognitive function is not obvious, and the onset is often hidden.With the further development of the disease, cognitive and behavioral dysfunction gradually appears, which can eventually cause dementia and seriously decline the quality of life of patients. Early diagnosis and intervention are of great value in controlling the cognitive impairment caused by CSVD and even preventing the occurrence of dementia. The potential benefits of TCM in the treatment of cognitive dysfunction in CSVD, which provides novel insights for the treatment of small cerebral vascular disease-related cognitive impairment. Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western medicine (TCM-WM) treatment is the trend in the development of the complementary benefits of TCM-WM treatment in the future.This article has reviewed the cognitive impairments associated with CSVD in order to provide a reference for clinical diagnosis and prevention of CSVD.