Brain health index as a predictor of possible vascular cognitive impairment (pVCI) in the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) 2012‐2015

Vascular dementia is the second most common cause of dementia. Brain health is defined as the capacity to function adaptively in the environment, and its partially determined by cardiovascular risk factors, which are a potential target for the prevention of all cause dementia. We developed a brain health index (BHI) to establish association with possible vascular cognitive impairment.