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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

908 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. Unravelling the genetic architecture of cerebral small vessel disease in the context of stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 2025-08-06 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is a major contributor to stroke, dementia, and cognitive decline.

  2. DCE-MRI reveals spatial pattern in heterogeneous blood-brain barrier leakage within white matter in cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 2025-08-04 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is associated with vascular cognitive impairment, dementia, and stroke.

  3. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is the second most common early-onset dementia.

  4. Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease and Atrial Fibrillation in Relation to Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain Sciences 2025-07-29 Vascular contributions

    In 3413 participants (mean age: 59 ± 14 years, 53.4% women), 11% had prevalent CVD or AF, 8% had prevalent CVD, and 4% had prevalent AF.

  5. Longitudinal Changes in Brain Diffusion Characteristics Associated With Cognition and Vascular Risk Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2025-07-24 Risk factors

    = 0.009). Significant differences in annualized changes in these FA and MD values were found depending on the presence or absence of type 2 diabetes and smoking.

  6. Community Socioeconomic Disadvantage relates to White Matter Hyperintensity Burden in Mid-to-Late Life Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Biopsychosocial science and medicine 2025-07-17 Risk factors

    Residing in communities characterized by socioeconomic disadvantage may confer risk for neurodegenerative brain changes and future neuropathology.

  7. Elucidating molecular pathogenesis and developing targeted therapeutic interventions for cerebrovascular endothelial cell-mediated vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-07-16 Inflammation and the immune system

    Vascular dementia (VaD) ranks as the second most prevalent subtype of dementia, surpassed only by Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  8. MRI contrast accumulation in features of cerebral small vessel disease: blood-brain barrier dysfunction or elevated vascular density?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 2025-07-16 Vascular contributions

    ), whereas the effect of region was only borderline-significant when comparing NAWM, WML peripheries and WML (p = 0.03) and non-significant for the other comparisons (p > 0.29).

  9. White matter hyperintensities contribute to early cortical thinning in addition to tau in aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of Aging 2025-07-15 Vascular contributions

    White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are associated with cortical thinning in distant brain regions.

  10. Cerebral small vessel disease in memory center patients with dementia with lewy bodies and Alzheimer’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-07-12 Getting a diagnosis

    We included 71 DLB (76.8 ± 7.4 years old, 25 females) and 71 age- and sex-matched AD patients (and 75.2 ± 5.3 years old, 27 females).

  11. Emerging biomarkers and frontier therapies: unveiling the role of endothelial dysfunction in cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-07-11 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD), a major contributor to stroke, cognitive decline, and vascular dementia, accounts for around 25% of ischemic strokes and significantly impacts age-related neurological disability.

  12. Attention Blocks Improve White Matter Hyperintensity Semantic Segmentation using U-Nets

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. IEEE Latin America Transactions 2025-07-08 Vascular contributions

    White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are a common finding on magnetic resonance (MR) images in older individuals, appearing as high-signal intensity regions on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging.

  13. Cerebral markers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in hypertensive disorders during pregnancy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Medical Immunology (Russia) 2025-07-07 Inflammation and the immune system

    Previous studies have shown that preeclampsia increases the risk of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases, as well as cognitive impairments, up to evolving dementia in the future.

  14. Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome, systemic inflammation, and incident dementia: evidence from 400,740 UK Biobank participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome 2025-07-03 Long-term cohort studies

    Compared with stage 0 CKM syndrome, stages 3 and 4 were significantly associated with an increased risk of dementia (hazard ratio [HR], 1.35; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.14-1.59; HR, 1.80; 95% CI 1.57-2.07).

  15. Deconstructing the intercellular interactome in vascular dementia with focal ischemia for therapeutic applications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Cell 2025-07-02 Lewy body dementia

    Vascular dementia (VaD), the second-leading cause of dementia, is primarily a white matter ischemic disease with no direct therapies.

  16. Plasma placental growth factor as a biomarker for subcortical ischemic vascular dementia and its cognitive correlation mediated by white matter hyperintensities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-07-01 Vascular contributions

    The plasma PlGF level was significantly elevated in patients with SIVD compared with CUCs, and showed a high accuracy with an area under the curve of 0.893.

  17. ARTS is associated with vascular risk factors, MCI, dementia, and stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-06-30 Disparities

    Higher ARTS score was associated (all ps < 0.01) with incident MCI (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.29), dementia (HR = 1.33), and stroke (HR = 1.52) and with diastolic/systolic blood pressure, self-reported hypertension, claudication, congestive heart failure, smoking, and glomerular filtration rate in the combined sample.

  18. The Association Between Possible Sarcopenia and Delirium Onset in Older Patients With Acute Stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Cureus 2025-06-29 Clinical safety

    Our findings suggest that possible sarcopenia is a significant and independent predictor of delirium in older patients with acute stroke.

  19. Cerebral small vessel disease and effects of intensive versus standard blood pressure treatment on cardiovascular outcomes and adverse events

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Hypertension 2025-06-27 Vascular contributions

    The mean age of the participants was 68 ± 9 years and 39% were female.

  20. The burden of stroke, ischaemic heart disease, and dementia in Africa, 1990–2021: an ecological analysis of the Global Burden of Disease 2021

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Lancet Global Health 2025-06-25 Vascular contributions

    In Africa in 2021, 17·3 (95% UI 15·5-19·2) million DALYs were lost due to strokes, 17·6 (15·5-19·6) million were lost due to ischaemic heart diseases, and 1·8 (0·8-4·0) million were lost due to dementia.

  21. Effects of regional white matter hyperintensities and β-amyloid on domain-specific cognition and progression to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain and Cognition 2025-06-24 Vascular contributions

    White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) and cerebral β-amyloid (Aβ) have been characterized as clinically significant biomarkers associated with greater cognitive decline and incidence of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) dementia.

  22. BRAIN-Diabetes: a randomised trial to test the feasibility of an adapted FINGER multidomain intervention in adults with type 2 diabetes living in rural border regions of Ireland

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. European Journal of Ageing 2025-06-23 Prevention trials

    In total, 156 individuals were assessed for eligibility, and 79 (51%) were recruited (mean age 61.6 ± 6.9 (range 60-75) years; 68% male).

  23. Association of Superficial White Matter Microstructure With Cortical Pathology Deposition Across Early Stages of the AD Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2025-06-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Superficial white matter (SWM), containing short-range association connections beneath the cortex, has been affected in mild cognitive impairment and AD, with gaps in understanding the disease's early stages.

  24. Arterial, Venous, and Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow and Pulsatility in Stroke-Related Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Longitudinal Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Stroke 2025-06-18 Vascular contributions

    We recruited 210 participants; 205 (66.8% male; aged 66.4±11.1 years) had useable data.

  25. To reveal and acknowledge an iatrogenic cerebral amyloid angiopathy: a vascular neurologist and neurosurgeon collaborative perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-06-13 Brain tissue and pathology

    It is often associated with recurrent ICH, seizures, and cognitive impairment.

  26. Arterial Spin-Labeling MRI Identifies Abnormal Perfusion Metric at the Gray Matter/CSF Interface in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. American Journal of Neuroradiology 2025-06-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Thirty-two patients met the inclusion criteria (n=11 moderate-to-severe SVD, mean age 72 ± 10 years, 6 women; n = 21 none-to-minimal SVD, mean age 70 ± 10 years, 12 women).

  27. Choroidal Vascular Volume, White Matter Hyperintensity, and Their Interaction With Cognitive Function in Aging Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025-06-11 Vascular contributions

    A total of 197 participants were included in the study.

  28. Association between Serum Levels of Interleukin-6 and Stroke, Cardiovascular Events, and Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis 2025-06-05 Vascular contributions

    During a median follow-up period of 4.6 years, stroke, MACEs, and AD dementia occurred in 24, 36, and 21 patients, respectively.

  29. Associations of Handgrip Strength and Testosterone With Cerebral White Matter Hyperintensity and Microstructural Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle 2025-06-01 Vascular contributions

    Sensitivity analyses were performed to validate the robustness of the linear regression results.

  30. Severity and Prognosis of Vascular Dementia in Patients with Acute Cerebral Infarction Combined with H-Type Hypertension and Its Correlation with Uric Acid Levels

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 2025-06-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The observation group had significantly higher blood uric acid levels than the control group (P<0.05).

  31. Adverse Social Exposome During the Life Course and Vascular Brain Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-05-27 Risk factors

    The sample included 740 donors (417 female [56.4%]; mean [SD] age at death, 81.5 [10.3] years; mean [SD] VBI score, 0.7 [1.0]; and median life course ADI, 7.08 [IQR, 4.33-9.83]), with residential years spanning 1905 to 2018.

  32. Association of multimorbidity and disease clusters with neuroimaging and cognitive outcomes in UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-05-26 Long-term cohort studies

    A total of 43,160 participants were included (mean [standard deviation] age, 64.2 [7.7] years, 53.1 % female).

  33. Retinal vessel density using optical coherence tomography angiography as a potential biomarker in patients with cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. The Egyptian Journal of Neurology Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2025-05-26 Vascular contributions

    OCTA is a handy, noninvasive tool that enables the visualization of diminished retinal microvascular density in cases of early CSVD.

  34. Pulse Pressure, White Matter Hyperintensities, and Cognition: Mediating Effects Across the Adult Lifespan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology 2025-05-25 Vascular contributions

    Pulse pressure, but not mean arterial pressure, significantly mediated the relationship between age and white matter hyperintensity load.

  35. Dementia from Small Vessel Disease Versus Alzheimer’s Disease: Separate Diseases or Distinct Manifestations of Cerebral Capillopathy Due to Blood–Brain Barrier Dysfunction? A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-05-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Pathophysiological differences separating small vessel disease (SVD) from Alzheimer's disease (AD) may alter treatment approach.

  36. Targeting CD38 to alleviate brain endothelial cell dysfunction and cognitive impairment in vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Pharmacological Sciences 2025-05-21 Inflammation and the immune system

    Vascular dementia (VaD) is a leading cause of cognitive decline, closely associated with cerebrovascular endothelial cell (CEC) dysfunction, blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption, and neuroinflammation.

  37. History of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and risk of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 2025-05-12 Lewy body dementia

    The incidence of dementia, and specifically, Alzheimer's disease, is higher in women than men, even in middle age, making it possible to rule out lifespan differences between men and women as a contributing factor.

  38. Association Between Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and Nontraumatic Subdural Hemorrhage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2025-05-08 Brain tissue and pathology

    Among 8.5 million hospitalized patients aged 50 years or older, 2,335 had CAA and 600,646 had other CVDs.

  39. Biomarker advancements in cerebral small vessel disease: An overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Neural Regeneration Research 2025-05-06 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease is a condition caused by chronic cerebral hypoperfusion due to microvascular damage and is a major contributor to stroke and dementia.

  40. Cerebral small vessel disease: The impact of glymphopathy and sleep disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 2025-05-05 Vascular contributions

    The glymphatic system, a vital brain perivascular network for waste clearance, hinges on the functionality of the aquaporin 4 (AQP4) water channel.

  41. Higher structural stiffness of the carotid artery is associated with cognitive decline, whereas both structural and load‐dependent stiffness are associated with brain structural abnormalities common in Alzheimer disease‐related dementias.

  42. NLRP3 Inflammasome in Vascular Dementia: Regulatory Mechanisms, Functions, and Therapeutic Implications: A Comprehensive Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics 2025-05-01 Lewy body dementia

    The NLRP3 inflammasome pathway destroys neuronal cells primarily through the production of IL-18 and IL-1β.

  43. Pericyte K ATP Channel Hyperactivity Contributes to Layer IV Cortex Hypoperfusion in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Physiology 2025-05-01 Vascular contributions

    Our research, conducted both in vivo and ex vivo, demonstrated a 50% decrease in pressure-induced constriction in the CADASIL ACT zone.

  44. Multifaceted role of nitric oxide in vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Medical Gas Research 2025-04-29 Lewy body dementia

    Vascular dementia is a highly heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder induced by a variety of factors.

  45. Multipotent Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Vascular Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Cells 2025-04-29 Lewy body dementia

    Vascular dementia (VD), characterized by cognitive decline and behavioral disorders, has seen a rapid increase in prevalence in recent years.

  46. Assessment of localized brain regions correlated with MMSE using VBM analysis of structural MRI in a Japanese sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neuroimage Reports 2025-04-28 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The global aging population has led to a significant rise in dementia and cognitive decline, with Alzheimer's disease as the primary cause.

  47. IGF-1 Provides Protective Role in Arteriosclerotic Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Hypertension 2025-04-18 Vascular contributions

    Serum IGF-1 concentration was significantly reduced in patients and rats with arteriosclerotic cSVD.

  48. Left Ventricular Injury Detected by Cardiac MRI and Incident Ischemic Stroke and Dementia Risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2025-04-18 Vascular contributions

    = 0.143). LVI was significantly associated with incident ischemic stroke in the MI cohort (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 1.82, 95% CI 1.08-3.09), but not in the CCA cohort.

  49. Shared Mechanisms of Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction and Neuroinflammation in Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. American Journal Of Pathology 2025-04-18 Inflammation and the immune system

    The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), highlighted the virus's impact on the central nervous system and its potential to exacerbate neurodegenerative diseases, similar to that in Alzheimer disease (AD).

  50. The Role of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Vascular Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Cells 2025-04-17 Lewy body dementia

    Vascular dementia (VaD) is a heterogeneous group of brain disorders caused by cerebrovascular pathologies and the second most common cause of dementia, accounting for over 20% of cases and posing an important global health concern.

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