Research progress on risk factors for leukoaraiosis

Abstract

Leukoaraiosis (LA), a term of neural imaging, is a disease which clinically causes cognitive dysfunction and gait disorders, eventually leads to persistent or progressive cognitive and neural dysfunction, seriously affects patients’ daily lives. Early detection and identification of LA and its risk factors and early intervention may be of help to improve the quality of patients’ living in the future. The research progress on risk factors for LA was reviewed in this study.