Relationships between Cognitive Performance, Neuroimaging and Vascular Disease: The DHS-MIND Study. | Vanderbilt Center for Clinical Cardiovascular Outcomes Research and Trials Evaluation

Hsu FC, Raffield LM, Hugenschmidt CE, Cox A, Xu J, Carr JJ, Freedman BI, Maldjian JA, Williamson JD, Bowden DW. Relationships between Cognitive Performance, Neuroimaging and Vascular Disease: The DHS-MIND Study. Neuroepidemiology. 45(45). 1-11. PMID: 26185004 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC4543571 NIHMSID: NIHMS699797.

Abstract

Type 2 diabetes mellitus increases the risk of cognitive decline and dementia, and elevated burdens of vascular disease are hypothesized to contribute to this risk. These relationships were examined in the Diabetes Heart Study-MIND using a battery of cognitive tests, neuroimaging measures and subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden assessed by coronary artery calcified (CAC) plaque. We hypothesized that CAC would attenuate the association between neuroimaging measures and cognition performance.