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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

342 journals in all.

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  1. Blood-brain barrier integrity disruption is associated with both chronic vascular risk factors and white matter hyperintensities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-01-23 Risk factors

    Plasma from individuals with a higher WMH burden was associated with increased BBB disruption in hBMEC.

  2. Monogenic causes of cerebral small vessel disease- models for vascular cognitive impairment and dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 2025-01-22 Vascular contributions

    Recent advancements in molecular biomarkers and therapeutic options for Alzheimer's disease have brought into focus the need for greater progress in the second most common cause of dementia, vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID).

  3. Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Current Cardiology Reports 2025-01-18 Prevention and risk

    Patients with MASLD are at increased risk for the occurrence of cardiovascular events.

  4. Middle-age cerebral small vessel disease and cognitive function in later life: a population-based prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 2025-01-18 Vascular contributions

    Of the total, 908 (37.0%) participants had cSVD on MRI reading at baseline.

  5. The possible role of cerebrolysin in the management of vascular dementia: Leveraging concepts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neuroscience 2025-01-18 Lewy body dementia

    Cerebrolysin (CBL) is a combination of neurotrophic peptides and amino acids derived from pig brains.

  6. Estimated pulse wave velocity associated with cognitive phenotypes in a rural older population in China: A cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-01-17 Disparities

    Per 1-m/s increase in ePWV was associated with an adjusted hazard ratio (HR) (95% confidence interval [CI]) of 1.51(1.30-1.75) for dementia and 1.58(1.33-1.89) for Alzheimer's disease (AD), and with an MMSE score decline (adjusted β-coefficient = -0.36; 95% CI = -0.52 to -0.21).

  7. Proteins Involved in Endothelial Function and Inflammation Are Implicated in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Stroke 2025-01-17 Vascular contributions

    ). Moreover, 12 proteins related to endothelial function and inflammation were associated with neuroimaging features of SVD.

  8. Incidental covert cerebral small vessel disease: Detection and management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Advanced Neurology 2025-01-16 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is one of the most common vascular diseases of the brain, primarily diagnosed using magnetic resonance imaging biomarkers.

  9. Association of small vessel disease progression with longitudinal cognitive decline across mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-01-10 Mild cognitive impairment

    In the CN group, cerebral microbleed (CMB) progression was associated with the decline in language function (p < 0.05), and deep white matter hyperintensity (WMH) progression was associated with a decline in memory function (p < 0.05).

  10. Association of Medial Temporal Lobe Cerebrovascular Reactivity and Memory Function in Older Adults With and Without Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2025-01-09 Brain scans and imaging

    = 0.008). Deficits in medial temporal CVR are observed in older adults with MCI and are related to worse memory function.

  11. Tract-specific white matter hyperintensities and neuropsychiatric syndromes: a multicentre memory clinic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2025-01-06 Vascular contributions

    Among 2935 patients (50.4% women; mean age=72.2 years; 19.8% subjective cognitive impairment, 39.8% mild cognitive impairment, and 40.4% dementia), larger WMH volume within projection fibres (B=0.24, SE=0.10, p=0.013) was associated with greater apathy.

  12. 2632 Determining the feasibility of a TCD-NIRS protocol to measure cerebral haemodynamics in dementia, delirium, and depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2025-01-01 Clinical safety

    An integrated TCD-NIRS protocol was feasible in these patient groups to measure NVC, but less-so in delirium.

  13. Association of mid-life cardiovascular risk with biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration, and white matter hyperintensities: Heart SCORE brain study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports 2025-01-01 Vascular contributions

    6.98 [2.44-19.95]; p < 0.05) driven primarily by self-identified Black race and age, while none with A and T. ASCVD risk score was also associated with WMHs ((β=0.42 ± 0.22; p = 0.05).

  14. Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: Current and Emerging Therapeutic Strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Aging and Disease 2025-01-01 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is a common disease in older people, characterized by damage to intracranial microvessels, leading to cognitive decline, increased risk of stroke, and dementia.

  15. Cognitive training reorganizes lateralization of fronto-parietal network in vascular cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain Communications 2025-01-01 Prevention trials

    These findings suggest that subcortical VCIND modifies the relationship between FPN lateralization and cognitive functions, rather than altering the lateralization pattern itself.

  16. Endothelial progenitor cells and cerebral small vessel disease in APOE4 carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior 2025-01-01 Vascular contributions

    • APOE4 carriers exhibit cerebrovascular dysfunction. • Endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) represent cell populations involved in facilitating vascular repair. • In APOE4 carriers, EPC colony count is associated with cerebral small vessel disease. • EPC colony count may indicate activation of mechanisms which protect cerebrovascular function in APOE4 carriers prior to the development of cognitive decline.

  17. FDG-PET anterior cingulate cortex hypometabolism as a marker of cerebral small vessel disease in Alzheimer's and vascular cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior 2025-01-01 Vascular contributions

    • Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) hypometabolism is a non-specific finding in many brain disorders. • ACC hypometabolism was more common in vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) than Alzheimer dementia (AD). • ACC hypometabolism correlated with cerebral small vessel disease markers. • ACC hypometabolism may be associated with motor stereotypies in VCID. • FDG-PET patterns of hypometabolism may identify vascular contributions to cognitive impairment The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is an important hub in the executive and salience networks.

  18. Greater White Matter Hyperintensities and More Severe Cognitive Dysfunction in Mild Cognitive Impairment With Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of Korean Medical Science 2025-01-01 Vascular contributions

    < 0.0036), the MCRS group exhibited significantly worse performance on word list memory, word list recall, and MMSE-KC compared to the MCI group without slow gait.

  19. Impact of PM2.5 on Cardiovascular Disease, Dementia, and Stroke in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. American Journal of Transplantation 2025-01-01 Vascular contributions

    Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM ) pollution is associated with negative health outcomes including dementia, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and stroke due to increased levels of oxidative stress and inflammation among community-dwelling older adults.

  20. Investigating links between white matter hyperintensities and menopausal status using robust age-correction methods in UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Brain Communications 2025-01-01 Vascular contributions

    Our results pertaining to menopause-related characteristics, such as age at menopause or menopause hormonal therapy, did not replicate the literature reporting an association with WMH volumes.

  21. Neuroinflammation and Cognitive health in Type 2 Diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Medical Research Archives 2025-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    This review explores the complex relationship between neuroinflammation and cognitive decline in individuals with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D).

  22. Perivascular spaces, diffusion MRI markers and cognitive decline in cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior 2025-01-01 Vascular contributions

    Cohort 1 included 446 individuals (mean age (SD) 65.2 years (8.9); 203 women), Cohort 2 included 164 individuals (mean age (SD) 49.9 years (12.6); 88 women).

  23. Vascular risk factor associations with subjective cognitive decline and mild behavioural impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain Communications 2025-01-01 Risk factors

    Having three or more vascular risk factors (odds ratio = 1.23, 95% confidence interval [1.04-1.47]), actively smoking (odds ratio = 1.54, 95% confidence interval [1.29-1.82]), being overweight (odds ratio = 1.46, 95% confidence interval [1.22-1.74]), and having diabetes (odds ratio = 1.29, 95% confidence interval [1.09-1.53]) were associated with higher odds of subjective cognitive decline.

  24. Insight into cerebral microvessel endothelial regulation of cognitive impairment: A systematic review of the causes and consequences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Experimental neurology 2024-12-13 Inflammation and the immune system

    Research on cognitive impairment (CI) has increasingly focused on the central nervous system, identifying numerous neuronal targets and circuits of relevance for CI pathogenesis and treatment.

  25. Association between the social exposome and vascular brain injury in brain bank donors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    This study shows promise for clarifying the relationship between the social exposome and ADRD brain pathology post‐mortem.

  26. Higher teacher‐student ratio was associated with greater gray matter volume (β = 6.25, 95% CI: 1.57, 10.92) but was not associated hippocampal volume (β = ‐0.01, 95% CI: ‐0.14, 0.11), ventricular volume (β = ‐0.04, 95% CI: ‐0.13, 0.04), or white matter hyperintensity (β = ‐0.02, 95% CI: ‐0.31, 0.26) (Table 2).

  27. Exploring Neighborhood Level Socioeconomic Status and Volumetric MRI Results in Patients with Memory Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    Contrary to expectations, high versus low ADI groups only showed a difference in hippocampal volume, but in the reverse direction.

  28. MCI Diagnosis and Neighborhood Disadvantage Predict Differences in White Matter Microstructure in a Rural Aging Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    These preliminary findings reveal white matter alterations associated with consensus MCI diagnosis and to socioeconomic differences in a clinical cohort of rural‐dwelling older adults.

  29. MCI Diagnosis and Neighborhood Disadvantage Predict Differences in White Matter Microstructure in a Rural Aging Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    These preliminary findings reveal white matter alterations associated with consensus MCI diagnosis and to socioeconomic differences in a clinical cohort of rural‐dwelling older adults.

  30. Parallel electrophysiological abnormalities due to COVID-19 infection and to Alzheimer's disease and related dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-08-29 Inflammation and the immune system

    Many coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) positive individuals exhibit abnormal electroencephalographic (EEG) activity reflecting "brain fog" and mild cognitive impairments even months after the acute phase of infection.

  31. Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Retinal Imaging Associations With Burden of Small Vessel Disease and Amyloid Positivity in the Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society 2024-08-01 Biomarkers

    The associations of lower foveal capillary density with cerebral WMH and amyloid positivity suggest that further research is warranted to evaluate for shared mechanisms of disease between small vessel disease and AD pathologies.

  32. Standardization and clinical applications of retinal imaging biomarkers for cardiovascular disease: a Roadmap from an NHLBI workshop

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature reviews. Cardiology 2024-07-22 Digital health tools

    The accessibility of the retina with the use of non-invasive and relatively low-cost ophthalmic imaging techniques and analytics provides a unique opportunity to improve the detection, diagnosis and monitoring of systemic diseases.

  33. Requesting That Delirium Achieve Parity With Acute Encephalopathy in the MS-DRG System

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry 2024-03-20 Health systems and care delivery

    Since 2007, the Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups classification system has favored billing codes for acute encephalopathy over delirium codes in determining hospital reimbursement and several quality-of-care value metrics, despite broad overlap between these sets of diagnostic codes.

  34. High-Dimensional Single-Cell Multimodal Landscape of Human Carotid Atherosclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology 2024-02-22 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Atherosclerotic plaques are complex tissues composed of a heterogeneous mixture of cells.

  35. The relationship between amyloid pathology, cerebral small vessel disease, glymphatic dysfunction, and cognition: a study based on Alzheimer's disease continuum participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-02-20 Long-term cohort studies

    Glymphatic dysfunction is a crucial pathway for dementia.

  36. Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Imaging of Atherosclerotic Intracranial Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Stroke 2024-01-22 Disparities

    Intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD) is one of the most common causes of stroke worldwide.

  37. Modes of covariation between vascular risk factors and cognition in cohorts with cultural and geographical variations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior 2024-01-01 Risk factors

    The number of people living with dementia worldwide is growing.

  38. Cerebral Small Vessel Disease, Hypertension, and Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2023-11-29 Brain tissue and pathology

    Hypertension-associated cerebral small vessel disease is a common finding in older people.

  39. Greater socioenvironmental risk factors and higher chronic pain stage are associated with thinner bilateral temporal lobes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Brain and Behavior 2023-11-20 Risk factors

    Regression analyses showed that with the inclusion of socioenvironmental factors, the model was significant (p < .001), and sociodemographic (ethnic/race) group differences were not significant (p = .118).

  40. Neurovascular glial unit: A target of phytotherapy for cognitive impairments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Phytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology 2023-08-02 Inflammation and the immune system

    Herbal medicines demonstrate great potential to prevent cognitive impairment.

  41. Microglia regulation of central nervous system myelin health and regeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Nature reviews. Immunology 2023-07-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglia are resident macrophages of the central nervous system that have key functions in its development, homeostasis and response to damage and infection.

  42. Pathophysiology and probable etiology of cerebral small vessel disease in vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2023-07-11 Risk factors

    Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) is commonly caused by vascular injuries in cerebral large and small vessels and is a key driver of age-related cognitive decline.

  43. Integrated single-cell analysis-based classification of vascular mononuclear phagocytes in mouse and human atherosclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Cardiovascular research 2023-07-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Accumulation of mononuclear phagocytes [monocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells (DCs)] in the vessel wall is a hallmark of atherosclerosis.

  44. Disparities in brain health comorbidity management in intracerebral hemorrhage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2023-06-08 Risk factors

    The study included 234 patients (mean 71 years, 42% female).

  45. Patterns of Regional Brain Atrophy and Brain Aging in Middle- and Older-Aged Adults With Type 1 Diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA network open 2023-06-01 Treatments

    EDIC participants had consistently higher brain age values compared with controls without diabetes, indicative of approximately 6 additional years of brain aging (EDIC participants: β, 6.16; SE, 0.71; control participants: β, 1.04; SE, 0.04; P Conclusions and relevance The findings of this study suggest an increase in brain aging among individuals with T1D without any early signs of AD-related neurodegeneration.

  46. Identification of White Matter Hyperintensities in Routine Emergency Department Visits Using Portable Bedside Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2023-05-23 Risk factors

    Portable, low‐field imaging could be useful for identifying moderate to severe WMHs.

  47. Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease—advances since 2013

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The Lancet Neurology 2023-05-23 Vascular contributions

  48. Cognitive Impairment After Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Stroke 2023-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    PSCI is common after stroke, especially in the first year, and ranges from mild to severe.

  49. A randomized, open-label clinical trial in mild cognitive impairment with EGb 761 examining blood markers of inflammation and oxidative stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Scientific reports 2023-04-03 Inflammation and the immune system

    The Olink Proteomics panel of inflammation markers ( https://www.olink.com/products/inflammation/ ) will be used to evaluate 92 proteins associated with inflammatory diseases and related biological processes.

  50. Changes in CSF sPDGFRβ level and their association with blood-brain barrier breakdown in Alzheimer's disease with or without small cerebrovascular lesions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2023-03-14 Biomarkers

    We provide evidence that increased CSF sPDGFRβ is associated with BBB leakage in the early cognitive impairment stage of AD, which may contribute to cognitive impairment in AD progression.

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