. . . . . . . "[The link between stroke and AD is probably higher than expected by chance for the following reasons: (i) both pathologies share genetic risk factors such as the epsilon 4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene; (ii) AD patients have changes in the brain vessels that may lead to either ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke or white matter changes or both; (iii) there is evidence of an increased risk of stroke in AD patients; (iv) there is evidence of a frequent association of AD and stroke at autopsy.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2017-02-19"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2017-10-17T13:10:36+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v5.0.0.0" . "v5.0.0" .