Albuminuria and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Marios K GeorgakisDespoina ChatzopoulouGeorgios TsivgoulisEleni Th Petridou

Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2018)

Albuminuria is independently associated with cerebral SVD, indicating shared microvascular pathology in the kidney and the brain. The results suggest that peripheral systemic microvascular disease biomarkers could be useful in the evaluation of brain microvascular damage.

Keyphrases

cerebral ischemia
subarachnoid hemorrhage
resting state
white matter
functional connectivity
multiple sclerosis
blood brain barrier