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Background: Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is the leading cause of vascular dementia. However, it is unclear whether the individual SVD or global SVD progression correlates with cognitive decline across mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subjects.
Objective: To investigate the association of small vessel disease progression with longitudinal cognitive decline across MCI.
Methods: We included 432 participants from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database, with 151 participants in the cognitively normal (CN) group and 281 participants in the MCI group. We evaluated magnetic resonance imaging-based SVD markers in both CN and MCI groups and explored their associations with 12-and 24-month cognitive decline using linear mixing effect (LME) models.
Results: In the CN group, cerebral microbleed (CMB) progression was associated with the decline in language function (p < 0.05), and deep white matter hyperintensity (WMH) progression was associated with a decline in memory function (p < 0.05). In the MCI group, CMB progression was associated with a decline in memory function (p < 0.05) and lacunes progression was associated with executive function (p < 0.05), whereas the progression of global SVD score was not related to longitudinal cognitive function.
Conclusions: The progression of CMB and WMH had an impact on cognitive decline in both CN and MCI groups, and lacunes progression only had an association with cognitive decline in the MCI group. Our study suggested that individual SVD markers may have a higher predictive value in longitudinal cognition compared with global SVD burden.
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Neurology
October 2025
Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
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Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60612United States.
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Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States.
Objectives: In this study, we examined the extent to which older adult social activity participation and perceptions of neighborhoods correspond with risks of cognitive impairment and no dementia (CIND) and dementia.
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Brain
September 2025
Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Granada, 18016 Granada, Spain.
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August 2025
Dementia Research Centre (Singapore), Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore.
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