作者
Beatriz E Padrela, Luigi Lorenzini, Lyduine E Collij, Mara ten Kate, Anouk den Braber, Jori Tomassen, Mahnaz Shekari, Bart NM van Berckel, Pieter Jelle Visser, Frederik Barkhof, Jan Petr, Henk JMM Mutsaerts
简介
Recent findings indicate considerable overlap between cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease(AD), suggesting additive or synergistic effects of both pathologies on cognitive decline[1, 2]. As cerebrovascular and Alzheimer's proteinopathy have previously shown to affect cerebral blood flow (CBF) as well as cognition, CBF could be a potential early hemodynamic biomarker of cognitive decline. Here, we investigated to what extent cardiovascular risk factors and amyloid burden affect CBF in an elderly cognitively unimpaired (CU) population.