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Memory breakdown in older age is a major challenge for medical research, with an increasing burden in personal, societal and fiscal terms. Stroke is an important cause. Memory depends on widespread networks in the brain which are bound together by white matter connections, which essentially act as

Objectives: 1. To investigate the relationship of carotid inflammation, as measured by FDG positron emission tomography (PET) to standardized uptake value in atherosclerotic plaque, with the number of covert brain infarcts. 2. To investigate the relationship of FDG PET standardized uptake value with

This study will be a multi-center trial to be conducted in centers across Canada and approximately 80 patients will be enrolled. Participants will be recruited from both stroke prevention (N=40) and memory clinics (N=40). For comparison, we will access the publically-available data using a very

STEMI patients chewed 300 mg aspirin and 600 mg clopidogrel in the emergency department, followed by oral 100 mg aspirin and 75mg clopidogrel daily for at least 12 months. STEMI patients received low molecular weight heparin (LMWH), β-blockers, and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) or

SBI is defined as a focal hyperintense lesion on T2-weighted images and/or fluid-attenuated inversion recovery with no corresponding symptoms in the clinical history of the patient that could be attributed to the lesion. SBI were distinguished from nonspecific subcortical and periventricular white

The DETermination of the role of OXygen i suspected Acute Myocardial Infarction (DETO2X-AMI) trial (NCT01787110), an ongoing multicentre, randomized, registry based clinical trial, is investigating the effect of oxygen on morbidity and mortality in ACS patients. The present DETO2X-biomarkers study

The prevalence of Vascular Cognitive Impairment(VCI) remains 21%~70% among patients after ischemic stroke or TIA. Effective therapy for the prevention of VCI remains limited. Abnormal iron distribution and Systemic iron deficiency may contribute partly to the occurrence of VCI.The primary purpose of

BACKGROUND: The decline in coronary heart disease mortality in the United States may be due to decreasing incidence of clinically apparent coronary heart disease or increasing survival from its first clinical appearance or both. Prior to 1987, few data were available to confirm either one directly.

BACKGROUND: Blacks in the United States have a much greater prevalence of essential hypertension than whites. The prevalence of hypertension for adults aged 18-74 has been estimated at 15.7 percent for white women, 18.5 percent for white men, 27.8 percent for Black men and 28.6 percent for Black

BACKGROUND: Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death among United States Blacks, where coronary heart disease mortality rates are among the highest in the world. There has been a marked decline in coronary heart disease mortality among Blacks in the United States including South Carolina

Stroke is the third largest cause of death after heart disease and cancer in Malaysia. It is estimated that 52,000 Malaysians suffer stroke annually. In 2005, 3245 cases of stroke were fatal. It is projected that the number of fatal stoke cases will exceed 25,000 in 2020. It was found that at

1. Contributions of white matter lesions to cognitive impairment in patients with subcortical ischemic vascular disease 1. Extensive neuropsychological tests including MMSE and covering 5 cognitive domains including memory, executive, visuospatial, attention and language function would be performed

BACKGROUND: The San Antonio Heart Study 1 was a population-based survey of diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors in Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites conducted from 1979 to 1982. Participants included all men and non-pregnant women ages 24 to 64, who resided in households randomly sampled

Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is commonly detected in elderly individuals, and patients with stroke or neurodegenerative disease. Features seen on neuroimaging include recent small subcortical infarcts, lacunes, white matter hyperintensities, perivascular spaces, microbleeds, and brain