Cerebral small vessel disease, hypertension, and vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia

AH Hainsworth, HS Markus, JA Schneider - Hypertension, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
Hypertension-associated cerebral small vessel disease is a common finding in older people.
Strongly associated with age and hypertension, small vessel disease is found at autopsy in …

Cerebral small vessel disease: Pathological mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets

Y Gao, D Li, J Lin, AM Thomas, J Miao… - Frontiers in aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) represents a diverse cluster of cerebrovascular
diseases primarily affecting small arteries, capillaries, arterioles and venules. The diagnosis …

Genomics of perivascular space burden unravels early mechanisms of cerebral small vessel disease

MG Duperron, MJ Knol, Q Le Grand, TE Evans… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Perivascular space (PVS) burden is an emerging, poorly understood, magnetic resonance
imaging marker of cerebral small vessel disease, a leading cause of stroke and dementia …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the impact of Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on blood-brain barrier (BBB) integrity and glymphatic function

J Wen, SK Satyanarayanan, A Li, L Yan, Z Zhao… - Brain, Behavior, and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other forms of dementia represent major public health
challenges but effective therapeutic options are limited. Pathological brain aging is …

Age-related loss of Notch3 underlies brain vascular contractility deficiencies, glymphatic dysfunction, and neurodegeneration in mice

MC Romay, RH Knutsen, F Ma… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Vascular aging affects multiple organ systems, including the brain, where it can lead to
vascular dementia. However, a concrete understanding of how aging specifically affects the …

A cell-autonomous role for border-associated macrophages in ApoE4 neurovascular dysfunction and susceptibility to white matter injury

A Anfray, S Schaeffer, Y Hattori, MM Santisteban… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Apolipoprotein E4 (ApoE4), the strongest genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer's
disease, is also a risk factor for microvascular pathologies leading to cognitive impairment …

Stroke genetics: discovery, insight into mechanisms, and clinical perspectives

S Debette, HS Markus - Circulation Research, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide and a complex, heterogeneous
condition. In this review, we provide an overview of the current knowledge on monogenic …

Brain and spinal cord arteriolosclerosis and its associations with cerebrovascular disease risk factors in community-dwelling older adults

S Oveisgharan, N Kim, S Agrawal, L Yu… - Acta …, 2023 - Springer
Arteriolosclerosis is common in older brains and related to cognitive and motor impairment.
We compared the severity of arteriolosclerosis and its associations with cerebrovascular …

Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia: Mechanisms, treatment, and future directions

VCT Mok, Y Cai, HS Markus - International Journal of Stroke, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Worldwide, around 50 million people live with dementia, and this number is projected to
triple by 2050. It has been estimated that 20% of all dementia cases have a predominant …

Current and future treatments of vascular cognitive impairment

BYM Ip, H Ko, BYK Lam, LWC Au, AYL Lau, J Huang… - Stroke, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) traditionally encompasses a variety of cerebrovascular
pathologies that contribute to varying levels of cognitive impairment, ranging from subtle to …