Predicting the occurrence of organ damage and future cardiovascular events is critical to
improving patient prognosis through early personalized treatment. Although many tools …

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with macrophage aggregate
and transformation into foam cells. In this study, we sought to investigate the impact of …

Hemodynamic parameters have been correlated with stroke, hypertension, and arterial
stenosis. While only a few small studies have examined the link between hemodynamics …

Purpose Carotid atherosclerosis is a kind of systemic atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries.
However, the efficiency of treatment is insufficient. Therefore, it is urgent to find therapeutic …

Background: Hypertension alters the structure and function of cerebral blood vessels, and is
an important risk factor for stroke and cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD). However, the …

Atherosclerosis (AS) is the typical cardiovascular disease, which is the main underlying
inducement of cardiovascular diseases. Aberrant expression of long noncoding RNA HLA …

Abstract Objective To determine transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD) parameters
related to unfavorable outcomes, and to clarify the correlations between those parameters …

Background and aims This study aimed to evaluate whether there is a J-curve association
between blood pressure (BP) and carotid artery intima-media thickening (CAIT) and …

Introduction: Cerebral perforating arteries provide blood supply to the deep regions of the
brain. Recently, it became possible to measure blood flow velocity and pulsatility in these …

Purpose To evaluate the phenomenological significance of cerebral blood pulsatility
imaging in aging research. Methods N= 38 subjects from 20 to 72 years of age (24 females) …