Lower microstructural integrity of brain white matter is related to higher mortality

Neurology

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 927-934

  Sedaghat, Sanaz ^a   Cremers, Lotte G M ^a   De Groot, Marius ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a   Franco, Oscar H ^a   Dehghan, Abbas ^a   Ikram, M Arfan ^a   Vernooij, Meike W ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; AGED; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN CORTEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ANISOTROPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84984794070     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003032     Document Type: Article

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