Smoking predicts brain atrophy in 10,134 healthy individuals and is potentially influenced by body mass index.
Meysami S, Garg S, Hashemi S, Akbari N, Gouda A, Chodakiewitz YG, Nguyen TD, Attariwala R, Niotis K, Merrill DA, Raji CA.
Meysami S, et al.
NPJ Dement. 2025;1(1):17. doi: 10.1038/s44400-025-00024-0. Epub 2025 Jul 23.
NPJ Dement. 2025.
PMID: 40718763
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Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, but its impact on brain volume loss, a neurodegeneration biomarker on MRI, is unclear. In total, 10,134 participants from 4 sites were scanned with a whole-body 1.5 T MRI protoco …
Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, but its impact on brain volume loss, a neurodegeneration biomarker …