Carotid Artery Stiffness Accurately Predicts White Matter Hyperintensity Volume 20 Years Later: A Secondary Analysis of the Atherosclerosis Risk in the Community Study
de Havenon A, Wong K, Elkhetali A, McNally JS, Majersik JJ, Rost NS. Carotid Artery Stiffness Accurately Predicts White Matter Hyperintensity Volume 20 Years Later: A Secondary Analysis of the Atherosclerosis Risk in the Community Study. American Journal Of Neuroradiology 2019, 40: 1369-1373. PMID: 31248859, PMCID: PMC7048485, DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a6115.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWhite matter hyperintensity volumeCarotid artery stiffnessTotal brain volumePressure-strain elastic modulusArtery stiffnessHyperintensity volumeBrain volumeAtherosclerosis RiskArterial stiffnessMR imagingCommunity studyStiffness indexHigher white matter hyperintensity volumeLower total brain volumeSecondary analysisCommon carotid artery stiffnessSmall artery diseaseMultivariable linear regression modelsCerebrovascular diseaseDementia riskSonography measurementsMultivariate modelCarotid strainPotential mechanismsPatients