Relationship between white matter hyperintensities, cortical thickness, and cognition

Stroke

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 425-432

  Tuladhar, Anil M ^a   Reid, Andrew T ^c   Shumskaya, Elena ^b   De Laat, Karlijn F ^d   Van Norden, Anouk G W ^a   Van Dijk, Ewoud J ^a   Norris, David G ^b,e,f   De Leeuw, Frank Erik ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d HAGA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; WHITE MATTER; ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84926672436     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.007146     Document Type: Article

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