William Reeves, Ishfaque Ahmed, Brooke S Jackson, Wenwu Sun, Michelle L Brown, Celestine F Williams, Catherine L Davis, Jennifer McDowell, Nathan E Yanasak, Shaoyung Su, Qun Zhao
INTRODUCTION: Hypertension affects over a billion people worldwide, and the application of neuroimaging may elucidate changes brought about by the disease. We have applied a graph theory approach to examine the organizational differences in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) data between hypertensive and normotensive participants. To detect these groupwise differences, we performed statistical testing using a modified difference degree test (DDT). METHODS: Structural and rs-fMRI data were collected from a cohort of 52 total (29 hypertensive, 23 normotensive) participants...
August 19, 2023: Brain Connectivity