Aortic Valve Calcification Is Associated with Future Cognitive Impairment

While an association between atherosclerosis and dementia has been identified, few studies have assessed the longitudinal relationship between aortic valve calcification (AVC) and cognitive impairment (CI).We sought to determine whether AVC derived from lung cancer screening CT (LCSCT) was associated with CI in a moderate-to-high atherosclerotic risk cohort.This was a single site, retrospective analysis of 1401 U.S. veterans (65 years [IQI: 61,...