Umemura, Yoshihito
Watanabe, Keita http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9592-8802
Kasai, Sera
Ide, Satoru
Ishimoto, Yuka
Sasaki, Miho
Nagaya, Haruka
Tatsuo, Soichiro
Mikami, Tatsuya
Tamada, Yoshinori
Tomiyama, Masahiko
Kakeda, Shingo
Funding for this research was provided by:
AMED (JP16dk0207025)
Article History
Received: 7 April 2023
Revised: 7 December 2023
Accepted: 13 December 2023
First Online: 15 January 2024
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Shingo Kakeda.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and the use of data from the Iki-Iki Health Promotion Project (Iki-Iki study) was approved by the Ethics Committee of Hirosaki University School of Medicine (authorization number 2019-064-1).
: Subjects were fully overlapped with a previous study, “Association of prediabetes with reduced brain volume in a general elderly Japanese population,” in <i>European Radiology</i>, which investigated brain volume reduction in patients with diabetes. In this study, we investigate the choroid plexus volume in mild cognitive patients using the same cohort of participants.
: • retrospective• cross-sectional study / observational• performed at one institution