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Vascular dementia: diagnosis, course and management

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**HALTSS** — the risk factors that literally HALT the brain's blood supply: **H**ypertension (the single biggest one) · **A**trial fibrillation · **L**ipids raised (hyperlipidaemia) · **T**obacco (smoking) · **S**ugar (diabetes) · **S**troke or TIA already happened.
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