A recent study has found that heart attack increased the risk of vascular dementia by 35 percent and the risk remains elevated for up to 35 years after the heart attack. Researcher Jens Sundb ll from the Aarhus University looked into the number of dementia diagnoses among the roughly 200000 Danes who survived the first year after a heart attack during the period 1980-2012. One notable result is that heart attack is not associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease but 'only' an increased risk of vascular dementia. Sundb ll said that a thirty-five percent increased risk is