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  1. Pathway-specific polygenic risk scores reveal underlying mechanisms of cerebral small vessel disease 2026-09-14
  2. Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Risk of Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality: The Framingham Heart Study 2026-09-07
  3. Regional Distribution of Mineralized Blood Vessels in Alzheimer Disease and Clinicopathological Associations: A Multicenter Autopsy Study 2026-09-01

Studies

904 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1975 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 93
  • Stroke 61
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 31
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 20
  • Annals of neurology 19

343 journals in all.

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  1. Pathogenomic Signature and Aberrant Neurogenic Events in Experimental Cerebral Ischemic Stroke: A Neurotranscriptomic-Based Implication for Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    This study has established a panel of highly important DEGs to signify the potential therapeutic targets for neuroregenerative strategy against pathogenic events associated with cerebral stroke.

  2. Multi-organ imaging demonstrates the heart-brain-liver axis in UK Biobank participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Nature communications 2022-12-21 Long-term cohort studies

    Medical imaging provides numerous insights into the subclinical changes that precede serious diseases such as heart disease and dementia.

  3. Association of Data-Driven White Matter Hyperintensity Spatial Signatures With Distinct Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Etiologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2022-12-05 Biomarkers

    Data-driven WMH spatial patterns reflect discrete underlying etiologies including arteriolosclerosis, CAA, AD, and normal aging.

  4. MRI-Visible Perivascular Spaces and Risk of Incident Dementia: The Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2022-12-05 Long-term cohort studies

    Perivascular spaces (PVS) visible on MRI scans may represent key aspects in the pathophysiology of stroke and dementia, including cerebral small vessel disease and glymphatic dysfunction.

  5. Association of Vascular Risk Factors and Genetic Factors With Penetrance of Variants Causing Monogenic Stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-12-01 Long-term cohort studies

    It is uncertain whether typical variants causing monogenic stroke are associated with cerebrovascular disease in the general population and why the phenotype of these variants varies so widely.

  6. Testing the Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and White Matter Hyperintensities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2022-12-01 Risk factors

    CVD risk has been associated with white matter lesions known as white matter hyperintensities (WMH) because they produce increased signal on fluid‐attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MRI scans.

  7. Ischemic stroke of unclear aetiology: a case-by-case analysis and call for a multi-professional predictive, preventive and personalised approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The EPMA journal 2022-11-17 Digital health tools

    In sub-populations such as diabetes mellitus type 2, proliferative diabetic retinopathy is an independent predictor of ischemic stroke.

  8. Naturally-aged microglia exhibit phagocytic dysfunction accompanied by gene expression changes reflective of underlying neurologic disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-11-14 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Age-associated microglial dysfunction contributes to the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques in Alzheimer's disease.

  9. Astrocyte contribution to dysfunction, risk and progression in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2022-10-31 Inflammation and the immune system

    There is increasing appreciation that non-neuronal cells contribute to the initiation, progression and pathology of diverse neurodegenerative disorders.

  10. Hypertension, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2022-09-21 Risk factors

    Hypertension affects a significant proportion of the adult and aging population and represents an important risk factor for vascular cognitive impairment and late-life dementia.

  11. Prevalent LB- and AD-related neurodegenerative pathologies affect a significant proportion of iNPH patients and contribute to cognitive decline (both) and motor impairment (only LB pathology) but do not significantly influence the surgical outcome at 6 months.

  12. Transcranial Color-Coded Doppler Cerebral Hemodynamics Following Aerobic Exercise Training: Outcomes From a Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal for vascular ultrasound : JVU 2022-09-06 Treatments

    This study did not demonstrate evidence of a significant change in the MFV in the middle cerebral arteries or evidence of a significant change in the PI between UPA and EPA groups.

  13. Joint Genetic Inhibition of PCSK9 and CETP and the Association With Coronary Artery Disease: A Factorial Mendelian Randomization Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. JAMA cardiology 2022-09-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Cholesteryl ester transfer protein inhibition (CETP) has been shown to increase levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and reduce levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C).

  14. Dual ontogeny of disease-associated microglia and disease inflammatory macrophages in aging and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Immunity 2022-08-04 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Brain macrophage populations include parenchymal microglia, border-associated macrophages, and recruited monocyte-derived cells; together, they control brain development and homeostasis but are also implicated in aging pathogenesis and neurodegeneration.

  15. Vitamin D and brain health: an observational and Mendelian randomization study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The American journal of clinical nutrition 2022-08-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Higher vitamin D status has been suggested to have beneficial effects on the brain.

  16. Multi-Modal Biomarkers of Repetitive Head Impacts and Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome: A Clinicopathological Case Series

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of neurotrauma 2022-06-06 Biomarkers

    In addition, hippocampal sclerosis was a common neuropathological comorbidity ( n = 5) and associated with limbic-predominant TDP-43 proteinopathy ( n = 4) or FTLD-TDP ( n = 1).

  17. Neuroinflammation in Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: Current Evidence, Advances, and Prospects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-06-02 Inflammation and the immune system

    Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) is a major heterogeneous brain disease caused by multiple factors, and it is the second most common type of dementia in the world.

  18. Area Deprivation Index and Gut-Brain Axis in Cirrhosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology 2022-05-10 Risk factors

    A total of 321 people with cirrhosis (60 years, 78% men, 75% non-Hispanic White, 24% non-Hispanic African American, 4% Hispanic) were included. 45% had prior HE and 56% MHE.

  19. Immune Pathways in Etiology, Acute Phase, and Chronic Sequelae of Ischemic Stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Circulation research 2022-04-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Inflammation and immune mechanisms are crucially involved in the pathophysiology of the development, acute damage cascades, and chronic course after ischemic stroke.

  20. Foam Cells in Atherosclerosis: Novel Insights Into Its Origins, Consequences, and Molecular Mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine 2022-04-13 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Foam cells play a vital role in the initiation and development of atherosclerosis.

  21. Association of Brain Volumes and White Matter Injury With Race, Ethnicity, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2022-03-30 Disparities

    We found no statistically significant difference in measures of WM injury by race and ethnicity after adjustment for cardiovascular risk factors and socioeconomic status.

  22. Arterial Stiffness and Long-Term Risk of Health Outcomes: The Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2022-02-16 Long-term cohort studies

    On long-term follow-up (median 15 years; minimum-maximum, 0-20), participants developed cardiometabolic disease (hypertension [1255 events]; diabetes [381 events]), chronic kidney disease (529 events), dementia (235 events), cardiovascular disease (684 events) a

  23. Function and therapeutic value of astrocytes in neurological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature reviews. Drug discovery 2022-02-16 Inflammation and the immune system

    Astrocytes are abundant glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that perform diverse functions in health and disease.

  24. Cholesterol metabolism in aging simultaneously altered in liver and nervous system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Aging 2022-02-07 Long-term cohort studies

    In humans, aging, triggers increased plasma concentrations of triglycerides, cholesterol, low-density lipoproteins and lower capacity of high-density lipoproteins to remove cellular cholesterol.

  25. Intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis: risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2022-02-07 Prevention and risk

    Intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS) is one of the most frequent causes of stroke worldwide and confers one of the greatest risks of recurrent stroke compared with other causes of stroke.

  26. Vasculocentric Axonal NfH in Small Vessel Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2022-02-01 Biomarkers

    Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) causes lacunar stroke and vascular cognitive impairment in older people.

  27. Adherence to a MIND-Like Dietary Pattern, Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution, and MRI-Based Measures of Brain Volume: The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study-MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Environmental health perspectives 2021-12-23 Prevention trials

    In this cohort of U.S. women, PM2.5 exposure was associated with lower MRI-based WMV, an indication of brain aging, only among women whose usual diet was less consistent with the MIND-like dietary pattern at baseline. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP8036.

  28. Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2021-12-22 Prevention and risk

    Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is predominately caused by vascular risk factors and cerebrovascular disease.

  29. Association of Cognitive Impairment With Free Water in the Nucleus Basalis of Meynert and Locus Coeruleus to Transentorhinal Cortex Tract

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2021-12-14 Biomarkers

    They also suggest that FW elevation occurs in the locus coeruleus to transentorhinal cortex tract, nucleus basalis of Meynert, and hippocampus in the transition from CN to EMCI, while other basal forebrain regions and the entorhinal cortex are not affected until a later stage of AD.

  30. White matter hyperintensities are associated with grey matter atrophy and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-12-03 Long-term cohort studies

    White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are commonly assumed to represent non-specific cerebrovascular disease comorbid to neurodegenerative processes, rather than playing a synergistic role.

  31. Geographic proximity, neuropathology and ADRC brain donation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2021-12-01 Risk factors

    Reducing Alzheimer disparities and generating the evidence needed to promote brain health for everyone requires diverse research representation, including areas near an ADRC.

  32. Physiology and Clinical Relevance of Enlarged Perivascular Spaces in the Aging Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2021-11-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Perivascular spaces (PVS) are fluid-filled compartments that are part of the cerebral blood vessel wall and represent the conduit for fluid transport in and out of the brain.

  33. Age-related immune alterations and cerebrovascular inflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2021-10-28 Vascular contributions

    Aging is associated with chronic systemic inflammation, which contributes to the development of many age-related diseases, including vascular disease.

  34. Frontal white matter lesions in Alzheimer's disease are associated with both small vessel disease and AD-associated cortical pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2021-10-04 Clinical safety

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

  35. The Association of Age at Diagnosis of Hypertension With Brain Structure and Incident Dementia in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2021-10-04 Long-term cohort studies

  36. Association of Regional White Matter Hyperintensities With Longitudinal Alzheimer-Like Pattern of Neurodegeneration in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA network open 2021-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In 303 participants (mean [SD] age, 73.16 [5.19] years, 181 [60%] women, 96 [32%] non-Hispanic White, 113 [37%] Non-Hispanic Black, 94 [31%] Hispanic), baseline WMH volumes were associated with cortical thinning in medial temporal and frontal/parietal regions.

  37. European Stroke Organisation and European Academy of Neurology joint guidelines on post-stroke cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. European stroke journal 2021-09-01 Clinical safety

    The optimal management of post-stroke cognitive impairment remains controversial.

  38. Interplay between Brain Pericytes and Endothelial Cells in Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2021-07-27 Clinical safety

    Prevalence of dementia continues to increase because of the aging population and limited treatment options.

  39. COVID-19-related neuropathology and microglial activation in elderly with and without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2021-06-18 Clinical safety

    The actual role of SARS-CoV-2 in brain damage remains controversial due to lack of matched controls.

  40. GFAP positivity in neurons following traumatic brain injuries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. International journal of legal medicine 2021-06-11 Biomarkers

    Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is a well-established astrocytic biomarker for the diagnosis, monitoring and outcome prediction of traumatic brain injury (TBI).

  41. Network medicine links SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 infection to brain microvascular injury and neuroinflammation in dementia-like cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-06-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    Our results suggest significant mechanistic overlap between AD and COVID-19, centered on neuroinflammation and microvascular injury.

  42. Traumatic Brain Injury and Risk of Neurodegenerative Disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2021-06-02 Risk factors

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly of greater severity (i.e., moderate to severe), has been identified as a risk factor for all-cause dementia and Parkinson's disease, with risk for specific dementia subtypes being more variable.

  43. ESO Guideline on covert cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. European stroke journal 2021-05-11 Prevention and risk

    'Covert' cerebral small vessel disease (ccSVD) is common on neuroimaging in persons without overt neurological manifestations, and increases the risk of future stroke, cognitive impairment, dependency, and death.

  44. Role of microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acids in nervous system disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2021-05-08 Vascular contributions

    During the past decade, accumulating evidence from the research highlights the suggested effects of bacterial communities of the human gut microbiota and their metabolites on health and disease.

  45. The Gene Coexpression Analysis Identifies Functional Modules Dynamically Changed After Traumatic Brain Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Computational and mathematical methods in medicine 2021-04-16 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, both in adult and pediatric populations.

  46. Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis, and APOE in Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID): Potential Mechanisms and Therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2021-03-25 Genetics

    Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) are a common cause of cognitive decline, yet limited therapies exist.

  47. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Consensus Diagnostic Criteria for Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2021-03-15 Getting a diagnosis

    New consensus diagnostic criteria for TES were developed with a primary goal of facilitating future CTE research.

  48. NOTCH3 variants are more common than expected in the general population and associated with stroke and vascular dementia: an analysis of 200 000 participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2021-03-12 Long-term cohort studies

    Cysteine-altering NOTCH3 variants identical to those causing the rare monogenic form of stroke, CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy), have been reported more common than expected in the general population, but their clinical significance and contribution to stroke and dementia risk in the community remain unclear.

  49. 27-Hydroxycholesterol, cognition, and brain imaging markers in the FINGER randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-03-06 Prevention trials

    27-OH appears to be a marker not only for dementia/AD risk, but also for monitoring the effects of preventive interventions on cholesterol metabolism.

  50. Cerebral small vessel disease: A review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University 2021-03-01 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is the most common, chronic and progressive vascular disease.

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