Background: The American Heart Association, in conjunction with the National Institutes of
Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and …

Background: The American Heart Association, in conjunction with the National Institutes of
Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and …

BACKGROUND: The American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National
Institutes of Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease …

Cerebral white matter lesions (WML) encompass axonal loss and demyelination and are
assumed to be associated with small vessel disease (SVD)-related ischaemia. However, our …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease causing progressive cognitive
decline until eventual death. AD affects millions of individuals worldwide in the absence of …

This paper is a proposal for an update on the characterization of cognitive impairments
associated with sporadic cerebral small vessel disease (SVD). We pose a series of …

Importance Neuroimaging studies have documented racial and ethnic disparities in brain
health in old age. It remains unclear whether these disparities are apparent in midlife …

Small vessel cerebrovascular disease, visualized as white matter hyperintensities on T2-
weighted magnetic resonance imaging, contributes to the clinical presentation of …

Background: White matter hyperintensities of presumed vascular origin (WMH) are a
common finding in elderly people and a growing social malady in the aging western …

While heart disease remains a common cause of mortality, cerebrovascular disease also
increases with age, and has been implicated in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias …