Age-related changes in white matter lesions, hippocampal atrophy, and cerebral microbleeds in healthy subjects without major cerebrovascular risk factors

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 302-309

  Chowdhury, Monzurul H ^a   Nagai, Atsushi ^a   Bokura, Hirokazu ^a   Nakamura, Eisuke ^a   Kobayashi, Shotai ^a   Yamaguchi, Shuhei ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; cerebral amyloid angiopathy; cerebral microbleeds; deep or subcortical white matter hyperintensity; hippocampal atrophy; Periventricular hyperintensity

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEEP OR SUBCORTICAL WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FRONTAL CORTEX; GERIATRIC DISORDER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERIVENTRICULAR HYPERINTENSITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SELF-RATING DEPRESSION SCALE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79959995581     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2009.12.010     Document Type: Article

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