Imaging

Body Fat Pattern Linked to Cardiovascular Ageing

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A UK cohort study suggested that both shared and sex-specific fat patterns influence cardiovascular ageing. In the study of 21,241 UK Biobank participants, machine learning was applied to 126 image-derived measures of vascular function, cardiac motion, and myocardial fibrosis to estimate cardiovascular age, with the difference from chronological age defined […]

Prolonged Functional Connections in Autism

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An US cohort study showed that prolonged temporal synchrony of functional brain connections is reproducibly observed in autism. The study included male autism (n = 52, mean age 27.73 years) and typically developing individuals (n = 38, 27.09 years) between December 2016 and April 2018. Increases in both sustained and functional brain connectivity at […]