Vascular dementia, what it is and how it manifests itself

Vascular dementia refers to acute or chronic cognitive impairment due to diffuse or focal cerebral infarcts that are most often related to cerebrovascular disease. This type of dementia represents global, chronic, and generally irreversible cognitive impairment. Vascular dementia should not be confused with delirium, although cognition is disordered in both.

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A urinary tract infection

Fatigue can also result from an urinary infection, which can also cause continuous urges and pain. Sometimes other symptoms are absent, while exhaustion remains the only symptom. Quick treatment of urinary

When stress reaches the limit, the body sends concrete signals

There is a specific area in the human body that can alert you when stress and fatigue have reached the limit so that you don’t collapse, even some time before.

Why do I get cramps when I run?

A muscle cramp can come suddenly , such as during a run , and it does not announce itself with any kind of sign. At most you may realize it is coming very late , when already the muscle is contracting or overlapping.

Peripheral arteriopathy obliterans: what is it?

Peripheral arteriopathy obliterans or peripheral arterial occlusive disease is a medical condition in which there is a localized obstructive lesion downstream of the renal arteries, with hypoperfusion of the lower

Risk factors, complications and prevention of allergic rhinitis

Seasonal allergic rhinitis, also referred to as hay fever, can be promoted by some specific factors.

Too much stress and too little sleep enemies of the heart

Several studies on this have already been done, but new evidence and quantification of the cardiovascular risk associated with excessive stress at work and at the sleep poor, taken singly

Bleeding: what to do?

In case of bleeding: Protect yourself from infection, wear latex gloves and if these are not available use different states of gauze or tissue. Cover the wound with a gauze

Nicotine: how to respond?

Much less nicotine is used in agriculture today than in the past, but it is still used in horticultural applications. An oral dose of no more than 40 mg of

What to know about rickets

Rickets is a typical pediatric disease and is caused by a defect in ossification of newly formed bone tissue, especially at the level of conjugating cartilages and areas of provisional

Pregnancy not to be medicalized: recommendations of gynecologists-obstetricians

At a time when couple infertility is becoming increasingly common and where pregnancies, often late in life, are received almost as an exceptional occurrence rather than as a physiological function

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Headache

Headache, the so-called “headache,” is probably the most common form of pain. It is chronic or recurrent pain affecting various structures of the head, such as arterial and venous vessels,

Borderline personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder is a psychiatric disorder characterized by a fluctuating perception of one’s value and identity, with sudden swings from a very positive and idealized view of oneself to

Sleep and menopause

Sleep disorders are one of the health problems most often reported by women approaching menopause and in the period after (climacteric). The need for sleep naturally tends to decrease with

Neurovegetative dystonia

If you have the patience to interview a family doctor whose outpatient clinic is always very crowded, you will find that a good portion of patients are afflicted with a

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)

the fatigue syndrome or chronic fatigue (CFS), now also referred to by associating the acronymME/CFS (myalgicencephalomyelitis/chronic fatiguesyndrome), is a rather complex condition that manifests as a condition of intense fatigue

Uncontrolled eating disorder

Uncontrolled eating disorder is an eating behavior disorder that is characterized by an inability to control food intake, resulting in the more or less frequent repetition of binges similar to

Emotional crisis

In current usage, the word “crisis” has a dramatic meaning, i.e., the transition from a condition of stability to a variability of previously assumed equilibria, holding homeostasis as the sole

Cluster headache

Cluster headache is a primary form of headache that is characterized by the manner in which the attacks occur, which are precisely “clustered” in so-called “active periods” lasting up to

Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common and severe degenerative disease of the brain, characterized by a progressive decline in cognitive functions (in particular, memory and language) associated with aging. It

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur at any age in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event that has made them feel life-threatening

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