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The unadjusted odds of dementia were more than doubled in the presence of microinfarcts (odds ratio 2.31, 95% confidence interval 1.40 to 3.82). Significant heterogeneity in the odds across studies (p=0.002) may be related to different methods for sampling for microinfarcts. See the legend to Table 1 for an explanation of the study acronyms.
