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Upon other factors, dysregulated cerebral perfusion might contribute to brain pathology. We aimed to evaluate the association of non-invasively measured blood flow (BF) and pulsatility index (PI) of the internal carotid artery (ICA) with (i) chronic HF parameters, (ii) brain morphologic measures and (iii) cognitive impairment.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods and results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This post-hoc analysis of the observational, prospective Cognition.Matters-HF study included 107 chronic HF patients without atrial fibrillation or carotid artery stenosis (aged 63 \u00b1 10 years; 19% women). Using extracranial sonography, we measured ICA-BF and ICA-PI 1.5 cm distal of the carotid bifurcation. Brain magnetic resonance imaging was performed on a 3-Tesla scanner to quantify cerebral atrophy, hippocampal atrophy and white matter hyperintensities. Extensive neuropsychological testing tested the cognitive domains intensity of attention, visual\/verbal memory and executive function (including its subdomains selectivity of attention, visual\/verbal fluency and working memory) using a comprehensive test battery. (i) Neither ICA-BF (median 630 (quartiles 570, 700) mL\/min) nor ICA-PI (1.05 (0.96. 1.23)) related to left ventricular ejection fraction, left atrial volume index or NT-proBNP. (ii) Higher ICA-PI (r = 0.25; P = 0.011), but not ICA-BF (r = 0.08; P = 0.409), associated with increased volume of white matter hyperintensities beyond ageing, while neither ICA-PI nor ICA-BF related to cerebral or hippocampal atrophy indices. (iii) ICA-BF, but not ICA-PI, positively correlated with age-adjusted T-scores of executive function (r = 0.38; P &amp;lt; 0.001) and its subdomains working memory (r = 0.32; P &amp;lt; 0.001) and visual\/verbal fluency (r = 0.32; P &amp;lt; 0.001). In a multivariate linear model of executive function, only ICA-BF (T = 3.79; P &amp;lt; 0.001), but not HF or magnetic resonance imaging parameters, remained a significant correlate of executive function.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>ICA-BF and ICA-PI, measured in broadly available extracranial sonography, independently related to measures of functional and structural brain changes in people with chronic HF, respectively. Due to limitations of this cross-sectional approach without a healthy control group, larger controlled longitudinal studies are needed to further elucidate the role of ICA-BF dysregulation and its implication for clinical care in this vulnerable cohort.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1002\/ehf2.14462","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,4]],"date-time":"2023-07-04T03:22:51Z","timestamp":1688440971000},"page":"3203-3208","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Internal Carotid Artery Blood Flow and Pulsatility Index in Cognitively Impaired People with Chronic Heart Failure"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8092-5967","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jan","family":"Traub","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital W\u00fcrzburg , W\u00fcrzburg 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