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What can you do about multiple infarctions on your brain or plaque in your brain stem. will this cause dementia or alzheimers?
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Vascular dementia: Multiple brain infarcts may cause vascular dementia. It's best to talk to your dr or a neurologist about disease prevention so you are less likely to have infarcts again.
Answered 5/12/2016
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Good habits: To protect your brain from dementia attend to health conditions especially diabetes and high blood pressure, eat right and get plenty of exercise.
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