Retinal vascular calibers associate differentially with cerebral gray matter and white matter atrophy

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 351-355

  Ikram, Mohammad K ^a,b,c,d,e   De Jong, Frank J ^a,f   Vernooij, Meike W ^a,g   Hofman, Albert ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,g,h   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^g   Klaver, Caroline C ^a,b   Ikram, Mohammad A ^a,e,g  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Departments of Ophthalmology   (Netherlands)

^c Singapore Eye Research Institute   (Nigeria)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^f Departments of Neurology   (Singapore)

^g Departments of Radiology   (Netherlands)

^h DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

brain volume; epidemiology; gray matter; population based; retinal vessels; small vessel disease; white matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA VEIN; VENULE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 84888138229     PISSN: 08930341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WAD.0b013e31829344ed     Document Type: Article

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