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ReviewFrontiers in aging neuroscience2024

Potential biomarkers for cerebral small vessel disease with cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Libin Liao, Weiquan Huang, Rongchao Ma, Xuan He, Moxi Su, Dujuan Sha

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Review in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Resistance training and subcortical vascular cognitive impairment: A 12-month randomized trial.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  3. The enigma of vascular dementia: current state and emerging perspectives.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026
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Libin Liao *Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Weiquan Huang *Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Rongchao MaNanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Xuan HeDepartment of General Practice, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Moxi SuDepartment of General Practice, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Dujuan ShaNanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is a common factor in age-related diseases such as stroke and dementia, and about half of dementia patients worldwide are caused by CSVD. CSVD-related cognitive impairment (CSVD-CI) affects more and more elderly people, resulting in economic losses and burdens on families and society. In recent years, circulating biomarkers have made breakthroughs and played an increasingly important role in the diagnosis, progression, and prognosis of CSVD-associated cognitive impairment, and are expected to be applied to the early clinical detection, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with cerebral small vessel disease. Through a systematic review and meta-analysis, this study aimed to assess the relationship between circulating factors and cognitive impairment associated with cerebral small vessel disease, especially the possibility of becoming the potential biomarkers for diagnosis. Articles published before November 2023 were searched in four databases, PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane Library, to identify all relevant studies reporting circulating markers in patients with CSVD. Twenty-nine articles out of 2,911 were finalized for this study. We meta-analyzed 2 or more articles that were jointly considered to be circulating biomarkers of CSVD-CI and summarized a total of 4 possible biomarkers: homocysteine (Hcy), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2), and neurofilament protein light chain (NfL). The results revealed that patients in the CSVD-related cognitive impairment group had significantly higher levels of Hcy and hs-CRP than those in the CSVD-without cognitive impairment group, whereas there was no statistically significant difference in Lp-PLA2 and NfL between the two groups. Therefore, Hcy, hs-CRP may be considered circulating markers of cognitive impairment associated with cerebral small vessel disease.

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blood biomarkercerebral small vessel diseasecognitive impairmentdementiameta-analysis

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