Cerebral Microbleeds: Relationship to Antithrombotic Medications.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) are represented by small areas of hemosiderin deposition, detected on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and found in ≈23% of the cognitively normal population over age of 60 years. CMBs predict risk of hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke. They correlate with increased cardiovascular mortality. In this article, we sought to determine in a population-based study whether antithrombotic medications correlate with CMBs and, if present, whether the association was direct or mediated by another variable.

Methods

The study consisted of 1253 participants from the population-based Mayo Clinic Study of Aging who underwent T2* gradient-recalled echo magnetic resonance imaging. We tested the relationship between antithrombotic medicati

SUBMITTER: Graff-Radford J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8238866 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature