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FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2021.712385
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diffusion tensor imaging; atherosclerosis; brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity; intima-media thickness; ankle brachial index
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This study found that low ABI could indicate white matter abnormalities, while the association between high baPWV and white matter abnormalities was not as significant. Furthermore, high blood pressure and elevated glycoalbumin/glycohemoglobin levels were associated with white matter abnormalities, while low body mass index and triglyceride levels showed lower correlation with white matter alterations.
White matter abnormalities may reflect cerebral microvessel disease. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) can help detect early changes in white matter integrity in each tract. However, studies investigating the relationship between subclinical atherosclerosis markers and white matter alterations in DTI findings are limited. This study aimed to examine associations between cardiovascular risk factors and indices of subclinical atherosclerosis-ankle brachial index (ABI), brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV), and carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT)-and altered white matter integrity in older patients. A total of 224 patients (aged >= 65 years) with cardiometabolic disease who underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and either plethysmography or cervical ultrasound at the start of the 3-year observational study period were included in this study. We measured fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD), which are indices of white matter integrity in seven white matter tracts. In a univariate analysis, lower ABI and higher baPWV values were associated with FA or MD abnormalities in several tracts, whereas IMT was scarcely associated with such change. In addition, high blood pressure and glycoalbumin/glycohemoglobin ratio (GA/HbA1c) and low body mass index (BMI) and triglyceride (TG) levels were associated with FA or MD abnormalities. In a multivariate analysis adjusted for age, sex, BMI, diastolic blood pressure, TG, and GA/HbA1c, the associations between ABI and FA or MD remained in all of either side of the following tracts: anterior thalamic radiation, forceps minor, inferior frontooccipital fasciculus (p < 0.001 for all) and superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF; p < 0.05), whereas most of those between baPWV and FA or MD disappeared except for SLF (p < 0.05). These results indicate that low ABI could be an indicator of white matter abnormalities.
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