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. 2022 Sep 30;14:141. doi: 10.1186/s13195-022-01083-8

Table 2.

Correlations of singular imaging variables with neurocognitive domains, N = 137

Cognitive domain CMB Lacune PV WMH Deep WMH WMH burden BG PVSE CSO PVSE PVSE burden Global SVD score CAA-SVD score HA-SVD score
β β β β β β β β β β β
MMSE  − .009  − .027  − .006 .015 .025 .017 .026 .064  − .064*  − .044**  − .115**
MoCA .094 .047  − .003 .020 .022 .017 .002 .034 .001  − .012  − .068**
CDR-SB .401 .122 .062 .023 .038 .013 .036 .012 .212* .043 .045
Orientation  − .047  − .011  − .038 .009  − .074 .101  − .073  − .070  − .173  − .054  − .297**
Attention .571 .027  − .060 .029  − .089 .024  − .002 .080  − .024  − .165  − .411**
STM (registration)  − .431 .251  − .092  − .207*  − .398 .001  − .105 .023  − .255  − .219**  − .208
STM (recall)  − .304 .024  − .036  − .193*  − .417 .005 .105 .168  − .232  − .009  − .021
Language .188 .304  − .080 .048 .027  − .097  − .115  − .125  − .214  − .200*  − .429**
Visual execution .463 .176 .006 .063 .321 .101  − .016 .117 .127  − .042  − .403**

Linear regression, adjusted for age, sex, vascular risk factors, and CDR, was calculated to explore correlations between cognitive and imaging variable

Abbreviations: CMB cerebral microbleeds, PV periventricular, WMH white matter hyperintensity, BG basal ganglia, CSO centrum semiovale, PVSE perivascular space enlargement, SVD small vessel disease, CAA cerebral amyloid angiopathy, HA hypertensive arteriopathy, MMSE mini-mental state examination, MoCA Montreal Cognitive Assessment, CDR clinical dementia rating score, CDR-SB clinical dementia rating-sum of boxes, STM short-term memory

*p < 0.05,

**p < 0.01