Cerebral white matter lesions and microbleeds: Tiny but meaningful indicators of hypertensive damage

Hypertension Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-6

  Toyoda, Kazunori ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral microbleeds; Hypertension; Leukoaraiosis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOARAIOSIS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR DISEASE; WHITE MATTER;

AGING; BRAIN; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 40149095421     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.31.5     Document Type: Editorial

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