Does mild cerebral atrophy get worse?

Mild cerebral atrophy can be exacerbated, depending on the cause of the patient’s brain atrophy. If the patient’s symptoms worsen there will be dementia, diminished intelligence, personality changes, memory impairment and some effects on behavioral aspects. If the patient’s brain atrophy is caused by alcoholism, cerebral arteriosclerosis, ischemia and hypoxia in the brain, or due to exhaust poisoning, brain tumors, or long-term seizures, the patient’s brain atrophy will gradually progress and worsen if the cause is not controlled. Cerebral atrophy is a relatively common disease. The most important causative factor of cerebral atrophy is that the cerebral vessels are in a chronic ischemic and hypoxic state for a long time, resulting in a decrease in the deformability of red blood cells in the patient’s body and insufficient effective blood perfusion in the microvasculature, leading to cerebral atrophy due to the shrinking of the patient’s brain parenchyma and brain volume.