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ReviewNature reviews. Neurology2015

Brain health and shared risk factors for dementia and stroke.

Hannah Gardener, Clinton B Wright, Tatjana Rundek, Ralph L Sacco

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Review in Nature reviews. Neurology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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50citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 106 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hannah GardenerDepartment of Neurology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, 1120 NW 14th Street, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Clinton B WrightDepartment of Neurology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, 1120 NW 14th Street, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Tatjana RundekDepartment of Neurology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, 1120 NW 14th Street, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Ralph L SaccoDepartment of Neurology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, 1120 NW 14th Street, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
University of Miami · US

Funding

STROKE INCIDENCE AND RISK FACTORS IN A TRI-ETHNIC REGIONR01NS029993 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI ELKIND, MITCHELL S, SACCO, RALPH L. · 1993 to 2019
$19.2M
Institutional Career Development CoreKL2TR002737 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI RUNDEK, TATJANA, SCOTT, GWENDOLYN BARBARA · 2018 to 2022
$3.6M
NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR002737NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS29993
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Impaired brain health encompasses a range of clinical outcomes, including stroke, dementia, vascular cognitive impairment, cognitive ageing, and vascular functional impairment. Conditions associated with poor brain health represent leading causes of global morbidity and mortality, with projected increases in public health burden as the population ages. Many vascular risk factors are shared predictors for poor brain health. Moreover, subclinical brain MRI markers of vascular damage are risk factors shared between stroke and dementia, and can be used for risk stratification and early intervention. The broad concept of brain health has resulted in a conceptual shift from vascular risk factors to determinants of brain health. Global campaigns to reduce cardiovascular diseases by targeting modifiable risk factors are necessary and will have a broad impact on brain health. Research is needed on the distinct and overlapping aetiologies of brain health conditions, and to define MRI markers to help clinicians identify patients who will benefit from aggressive prevention measures.

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BrainDementiaHumansRisk FactorsStroke

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PMID26481296
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