I assume my calcification score would be off the charts since my right carotid artery is completely blocked. I don't think I'm cognitively impaired, but then if I truly am cognitively impaired I would think I'm ok. Being so stupid you don't realize you are stupid. Oh well, I'm happy in my stupidity and stroke impairments.
Carotid artery calcification score and its association with cognitive impairment
Clinical Interventions in Aging — Chu Z, et al. | January 22, 2019
In carotid artery stenosis (CAS)
patients, researchers retrospectively examined the possible relationship
between carotid artery calcification score (CS) and cognitive
impairment. Using Color Doppler ultrasound, multi-detector row spiral CT
angiography and MRI scanning, carotid artery was measured in 102
patients with cervical carotid arteries. A significant correlation was
found between carotid artery CSs and cognitive scores, making CS a
possible risk factor for early screening of cognitive impairment in CAS
patients. The possible mechanism could be linked to the effect of the
calcification on the plaque burden.
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