Carotid Atherosclerosis and Cerebral Microbleeds: The Framingham Heart Study

Carotid Atherosclerosis and Cerebral Microbleeds: The Framingham Heart Study

BackgroundCarotid atherosclerosis is associated with subclinical ischemic cerebrovascular disease, but its role in hemorrhage‐prone small vessel disease—represented by cerebral microbleed (CMB)—is unclear, although vascular risk factors underlie both conditions. We hypothesized that persons with car...

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Main Authors: José R. Romero, Sarah R. Preis, Alexa Beiser, Charles DeCarli, Ralph B. D'Agostino, Philip A. Wolf, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Joseph F. Polak, Sudha Seshadri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-03-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
brain magnetic resonance imaging
carotid atherosclerosis
carotid intima–media thickness
cerebral microbleeds
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.115.002377

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