Table 1.

Demographics and clinical characteristics of the samples used in this study ($n=152$). SVD and PV stand for small vessel disease and periventricular respectively.

Vascular risk factors	Diabetes (n, (%))	18 (12)
	Hypertension (n, (%))	114 (75)
	Hypercholesterolaemia (n, (%))	86 (57)
	Recent or present smoker (n, (%))	96 (64)
Relevant SVD imaging markers	Presence of at least 1 microbleed (n, (%))	26 (17)
	Presence of a previous lacune (n, (%))	37 (24)
	SVD score (median [IQR])	1 [0 2]
	PV WMH Fazekas score (median [IQR])	1 [1 2]
	Deep WMH Fazekas score (median [IQR])	1 [1 2]