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Expert: - 3/3/2009


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My MRI reported a lesion in frontal lobe white matter, and lesion in left cerebral penduncle. It also mentioned small vessel damage. I have not been diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension. What else can cause this?

Answer
Lesha, it can be caused by several things besides diabetes or hypertension.  Smoking can cause it, poor diet, hereditary genes.  High cholesterol can also be a culprit.  

So if you have any of these things then I would make sure that you correct them, it may not fix the damage that has been done, but it will surely help prevent anymore.  

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Paula Damgaard

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I can offer families and caregivers non-diagnostic answers to questions regarding the disease. I travel around the state giving courses on Alzheimer`s disease for nurses and CNA`s.

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I have coordinated Alzheimer's Clinical drug trials since 1987. I have coordinated the Memory Disorders Clinic since it's inception 1994. I also have personnal experience from caring for my mother who died of AD 5/2000 and presently from caring for my mother in law who was diagnosed in March 2000.

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