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SUBMITTER: Graff-Radford J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5838800 | biostudies-other | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Graff-Radford Jonathan J Raman Mekala R MR Rabinstein Alejandro A AA Przybelski Scott A SA Lesnick Timothy G TG Boeve Bradley F BF Murray Melissa E ME Dickson Dennis W DW Reichard R Ross RR Parisi Joseph E JE Knopman David S DS Petersen Ronald C RC Jack Clifford R CR Kantarci Kejal K
JAMA neurology 20180201 2
<h4>Importance</h4>Cerebral microinfarcts are associated with increased risk of cognitive impairment and may have different risk factors than macroinfarcts. Subcortical microinfarcts are associated with declining blood pressure (BP) in elderly individuals.<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate BP slopes as a risk factor for microinfarcts.<h4>Design, setting, and participants</h4>From the population-based Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, 303 of 1158 individuals (26.2%) in this cohort study agreed to have an ...[more]