Why the study?
Does greater carotid artery intima-media thickness predict worse cognitive function in stroke-free middle-aged adults?
Population
2618 stroke-free middle-aged participants from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
5 years
Authors
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May inform vascular monitoring for cognition; leaves open whether IMT modification alters processing speed.
Does greater carotid artery intima-media thickness predict worse cognitive function in stroke-free middle-aged adults?
Greater carotid intima-media thickness in midlife is independently associated with worse cognitive processing speed 5 years later, suggesting early atherosclerosis may impact cognitive aging.
Hazzouri et al. (2015) studied this question.