Association of Carotid Plaque and Flow Velocity With White Matter Integrity in a Middle-aged to Elderly Population
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- Received May 31, 2022
- Accepted in final form August 10, 2022
- First Published September 19, 2022.
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Author Disclosures
- David Leander Rimmele, MD,
- Elina Larissa Petersen, MSc,
- Eckhard Schlemm, MD, PhD,
- Simon S. Kessner, MD, PhD,
- Marvin Petersen, MD,
- Carola Mayer, MSc,
- Bastian Cheng, MD,
- Tanja Zeller, PhD,
- Christoph Waldeyer, MD,
- Christian-Alexander Behrendt, MD,
- Christian Gerloff, MD and
- Götz Thomalla, MD
- David Leander Rimmele, MD,
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Supported by the European Wake-UP project (www.wakeup-stroke.eu) EPOS Trial (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03795948): the Innovation Fund of the German Federal Joint Committee with the grant number 01VSF16023. StroCare Trial (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04159324): the Innovation Fund of the German Federal Joint Committee with the grant number 01NVF18022.
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- Elina Larissa Petersen, MSc,
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- Eckhard Schlemm, MD, PhD,
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- Simon S. Kessner, MD, PhD,
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This study was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG via grant SFB 936 "Multi-site communication in the brain", project C2.
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- Marvin Petersen, MD,
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- Carola Mayer, MSc,
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- Bastian Cheng, MD,
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Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism European Stroke Journal
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- Tanja Zeller, PhD,
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- Christoph Waldeyer, MD,
Daiichi Sankyo, Amgen
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Speaker honoraria: Daiichi Sankyo, Amgen, Novartis, Astra Zeneca
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Sanofi, Daiichi Sankyo
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- Christian-Alexander Behrendt, MD,
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- Christian Gerloff, MD and
(1) Abbott, (2) Amgen, (3) Bayer Vital, (4) Bristol-Myers-Squibb, (5) Boehringer Ingelheim, (6) Daiichi-Sankyo, (7) Prediction Biosciences
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(1) Abbott, travel and speaker honoraria, (2) Amgen, travel and speaker honoraria, (3) Bayer Vital, travel and speaker honoraria, (4) Boehringer Ingelheim, travel and speaker honoraria
(1) INFO Neurology Psychiatrie, Springer-Verlag (2) Editor of Textbook "Therapie und Verlauf neurologischer Erkrankungen", Kohlhammer-Verlag
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(1) DFG: SFB 936, since 2011, ongoing, (2) DFG: TRR 169 A3, since 2016, ongoing, (3) DFG: Ge 844/4-1, since 2008, ongoing, (4) BMBF: SmartSense4Life, since 2020, ongoing
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(1) Wegener Foundation / Movement Disorders Science, (2) Schilling Foundation, translational stroke research, since 2016, ongoing program for two of my employees, (3) Werner-Otto-Foundation, intermittent for employees of my department, (4) Hertie Foundation, Network of Excellence in Clinical Neuroscience, since 2019, ongoing
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- Götz Thomalla, MD
(1) DSMB for the TEA Stroke Trial
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(1) Bayer, speaker honoraria (2) Boheringer Ingelheim, speaker honoraria, travel (3) Daichii Sankyo, speaker honoraria (4) Bristol Myer Squibb/Pfizer, speaker honoraria, travel (5) GlaxoSmithKline, speaker honoraria (6) Amarin, speaker honoraria, travel (7) Alexion, speaker honoraria, travel (8) Portola, speaker honoraria, travel (9) Acandis, speaker honoraria, travel
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(1) Acandis, consultant (2) Stryker, consultant
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(1) Bayer
(1) European Union, Grant No. 278276 (WAKE-UP) (2) European Union, Grant No. 634809 (PRECIOUS) (3) European Union, Grant No. 754460 (TENSION)
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(1) Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, Grant SFB936, Project C2 (2) Corona Foundation, CONTEST study
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- From the Department of Neurology (D.L.R., E.S., S.S.K., M.P., C.M., B.C., C.G., G.T.) and Epidemiological Study Center (E.L.P.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg; Departments of Cardiology (T.Z., C.W.) and Vascular Medicine (C.-A.B.), University Heart and Vascular Center UKE Hamburg; and German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) Partner Site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck (T.Z., C.W.), Germany.
- Correspondence
Dr. Rimmele, d.rimmele{at}uke.de
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