Population
328 autopsies including 37 cases of cerebral hemorrhage, 60 of cerebral infarction, 51 of myocardial…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Autopsy correlation of brain-heart atherosclerosis supports shared-disease hypothesis; leaves open clinical relevance and prospective validation.
Autopsy findings demonstrate a close correlation between atherosclerotic lesions in the brain and heart, though intracerebral arterial lesions were not related to atherosclerosis.
Ueda et al. (1970) studied this question.
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