Brachial-Ankle Pulse Wave Velocity is Related to the Total Cerebral Small-Vessel Disease Score in an Apparently Healthy Asymptomatic Population

Cerebral small-vessel disease (CSVD) is an extensive cerebrovascular disease that mainly involves the perforating arterioles, capillaries and venules and plays a crucial role in stroke and dementia.1 Due to the inability of conventional noninvasive angiography to display small cerebral vessels, relevant brain parenchymal lesions on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used as an alternative marker for CSVD. These markers include recent small subcortical infarcts, lacunes of presumed vascular origin, white matter hyperintensity (WMH) of presumed vascular origin, perivascular space (PVS), cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) and brain atrophy according to the Standards for Reporting Vascular Changes on Neuroimaging (STRIVE).

Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - August 15, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Tiantian Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, Shuhua Wang, Xiaolong Du, Zhaofeng Zheng, Ning Wang, Xunyao Hou, Chao Shen, Jian Chen, Xueping Liu Source Type: research