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The mechanisms underlying cognitive impairment are incompletely understood but may include arterial stiffness and microvascular dysfunction. In the population-based Maastricht Study, we investigated the association between arterial stiffness and cognitive performance, and whether any such association was mediated by microvascular dysfunction. We included cross-sectional data of 2544 participants (age, 59.

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Microvascular Dysfunction Is Associated With Worse Cognitive Performance: The Maastricht Study.

Hypertension

January 2020

From the CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases (S.P.R., T.T.v.S., A.J.H.M.H., A.A.K., N.S., R.M.A.H., M.T.S., C.D.A.S.), Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, Limburg, the Netherlands.

Microvascular dysfunction may be associated with worse cognitive performance. Most previous studies did not adjust for important confounders, evaluated only individual measures of microvascular dysfunction, and showed inconsistent results. We evaluated the association between a comprehensive set of measures of microvascular dysfunction and cognitive performance in the population-based Maastricht Study.

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