Incidence of cerebrovascular lesions in Alzheimer's disease: a postmortem study

Recent epidemiological and clinico-pathological data suggest overlaps between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebrovascular lesions (CVL) that may show some synergistic effects, but the results of studies of the relationship between AD and stroke have been controversial. The objective of this study was to compare the frequency of cerebral infarcts, hemorrhages and minor cerebrovascular lesions in autopsy-confirmed AD and age-matched control...