ArticleImmunity, inflammation and disease2024
Relationship of neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio with cerebral small vessel disease and its common imaging markers.
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- Association between neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and cerebral small vessel disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Pooled it
- Circulating immune cells in cerebral small vessel disease: a systematic review.Biogerontology · 2025Pooled it
- Associations of Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Functional Outcome in Acute Ischaemic Stroke Patients.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Relationship between insomnia and cognitive function in elderly Chinese cerebral small vessel disease patients: mediating effect of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Coronary Atherosclerosis and Subclinical Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Robust Association Beyond Intracranial Atherosclerosis and Cardiac Systolic Function.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Predicting progression of cerebral small vessel disease: relevance of carotid perivascular fat density based on computed tomography angiography.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Elevated monocyte-to-high-density lipoprotein ratio is associated with increased risk of cognitive impairment and severe cerebral small vessel disease burden.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Development of a clinical prediction model for inflammatory biomarkers and enlarged basal ganglia perivascular spaces using SHAP analysis: feature selection and model interpretation.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Relationship of neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio with cerebral small vessel disease and its common imaging markers.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundHigh neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is associated with poor prognosis in ischemic stroke. However, the role of NLR in cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is controversial. Herein, we evaluated the value of NLR in identifying CSVD and its relationship with the common imaging markers of CSVD.
methodsA total of 667 patients were enrolled in this study, including 368 in the CSVD group and 299 in the non-CSVD group. Clinical, laboratory, and imaging data were collected. The relationship of NLR with CSVD and common imaging markers of CSVD were analyzed with univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis. The predictive value of NLR was assessed with the receiver operating characteristic curve.
resultsNLR (odds ratio [OR] = 1.929, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.599-2.327, p < .001) was an independent risk factor for CSVD. NLR was also independently associated with moderate to severe white matter hyperintensity (WMH) (OR = 2.136, 95% CI = 1.768-2.580, p < .001), moderate to severe periventricular WMH (OR = 2.138, 95% CI = 1.771-2.579, p < .001), and moderate to severe deep WMH (OR = 1.654, 95% CI = 1.438-1.902, p < .001), moderately to severely enlarged perivascular spaces (EPVS) (OR = 1.248, 95% CI = 1.110-1.402, p < .001), moderately to severely EPVS in the basal ganglia (OR = 1.136, 95% CI = 1.012-1.275, p = .030), and moderately to severely EPVS in the centrum semiovale (OR = 1.140, 95% CI = 1.027-1.266, p = .014). However, NLR was not statistically significantly associated with lacune. The optimal cutoff point of NLR in predicting CSVD was 2.47, with sensitivity and specificity of 84.2% and 66.9%, respectively (p < .01). The diagnostic effect was maximized when NLR was combined with other risk factors.
conclusionsNLR is an independent risk factor for CSVD and is independently associated with common imaging markers of CSVD. NLR may serve as a valid and convenient biomarker for assessing CSVD.
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