Carotid intima-media thickness relative to cognitive impairment in dialysis patients, and their relationship with brain volume and cerebral small vessel disease

• Egile Nagusiak: Ke Zheng (Egilea), Yujun Qian (Egilea), Tiaye Lin (Egilea), Fei Han (Egilea), Hui You (Egilea), Xixi Tao (Egilea), Bo Hou (Egilea), Jing Yuan (Egilea), Haiyun Wang (Egilea), Dingding Zhang (Egilea), Ke Lv (Egilea), Feng Feng (Egilea), Yicheng Zhu (Egilea), Xuemei Li (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: SAGE Publishing, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) is considered a risk factor for and predictor of cerebrovascular disease. In this study, we explored the contribution of cIMT to cognitive impairment (CI) in dialysis patients and the role of cerebral small vascular disease (CSVD) and brain atrophy i...