Lower serum uric acid and impairment of right cerebral hemisphere structural brain networks are related to depressive symptoms in cerebral small vessel disease : A cross-sectional study

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Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) may be associated with an increased risk of depressive symptoms. Serum uric acid (SUA), an antioxidant, may be involved in the occurrence and development of depressive symptoms, but the mechanism remains unknown. Moreover, the relationship between structural brain networks and SUA has not been explored. This study examined the relationship between SUA and depressive symptoms in patients with SVD using graph theory analysis. We recruited 208 SVD inpatients and collected fasting blood samples upon admission. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the 24-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD-24). Magnetic resonance imaging was used to evaluate SVD, and diffusion tensor images were used to analyze structural brain networks using graph theory. Patients with depressive symptoms (n = 34, 25.76%) compared to those without (334.53 vs 381.28 μmol/L, p = 0.017) had lower SUA levels. Graph theoretical analyses showed a positive association of SUA with betweenness centrality, nodal efficiency, and clustering coefficients and a negative correlation with the shortest path length in SVD with depressive symptoms group. HAMD scores were significantly associated with nodal network metrics in the right cerebral hemisphere. Our findings suggested that lower SUA levels are significantly associated with disrupted structural brain networks in the right cerebral hemisphere of patients with SVD who have depressive symptoms.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

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Heliyon - 10(2024), 6 vom: 30. März, Seite e27947

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yu, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Yi, Ming [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Jiayu [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jinbiao [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Huixing [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Liqian [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Xiangming [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Gang [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Yuhua [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Jinsheng [VerfasserIn]
Xing, Shihui [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yicong [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Meng [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Shuangquan [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Leow Yi [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Dilip [VerfasserIn]
Vipin, Ashwati [VerfasserIn]
Ann, Soo See [VerfasserIn]
Binte Zailan, Fatin Zahra [VerfasserIn]
Sandhu, Gurveen Kaur [VerfasserIn]
Kandiah, Nagaendran [VerfasserIn]
Dang, Chao [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cerebral small vessel disease
Depressive symptoms
Diffusion tensor imaging
Journal Article
Serum uric acid
Structural brain networks

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Date Revised 22.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27947

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369994620