Vascular Cognitive Impairment and cognitive decline; a longitudinal study comparing different types of vascular brain injury - The TRACE-VCI study.

Background: Little is known about the trajectories of cognitive decline in relation to different types of vascular brain injury in patients presenting at a memory clinic with Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI).

Methods: We included 472 memory clinic patients (age 68 (±8.2) years, 44% female, MMSE 25.