How to Use cerebrovascular in a Sentence

cerebrovascular

adjective
  • The same is true of cerebrovascular disease, blood clots – specifically deep vein thromboses – and strokes.
    Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The cause was complications from cerebrovascular disease, said a son, Michael Lewis.
    Marc Lewis, Washington Post, 13 June 2018
  • The cause was cerebrovascular disease, his wife, Jocelyn Sladen, said.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 17 June 2017
  • Extreme heat is also linked with cerebrovascular disease, a disorder that affects blood supply to the brain.
    Emily Holden, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Most recently, it has been seen that these creases are also implicated in cerebrovascular disease -- disease of the blood vessels in the brain.
    Adam Taylor, CNN, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The data are starting to point to people with Covid, compared to those that didn’t, having a higher incidence of all kinds of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Then come diabetes, cerebrovascular diseases (when the brain’s steady source of blood is impacted), heart failure, malignant neoplasms (a fancy term for cancer), and then flu and pneumonia.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Morris attributes it to cerebrovascular disease — what others call ministrokes.
    Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • According to South Korean newswire Yonhap, one of the deceased was a 63-year-old nursing home resident with cerebrovascular disease, who died after showing symptoms of blood poisoning and pneumonia.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • For example, inhaling PM2.5 can cause heart disease, cerebrovascular disease and lung cancer.
    John Fialka, Scientific American, 26 July 2019
  • Deaths can result from heat stroke and related conditions as well as cardiovascular, respiratory and cerebrovascular diseases, the CDC notes.
    Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 6 July 2023
  • The risks for survivors 65 and up were greater for kidney failure, blood clots, cerebrovascular disease, muscle disorders, neurological conditions, and mental health conditions.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 May 2022
  • Vascular Dementia Vascular dementia (also known as cerebrovascular disease) is typically the result of a recent stroke.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • That’s more than the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and/or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes.
    NBC News, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Is 18-64 years old and has an underlying health condition, such as diabetes, obesity, cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, cerebrovascular disease, pregnancy and smoking.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Mexican local news outlet, El Universal, reported that Wozniak had suffered a cerebrovascular (ischemia) accident.
    Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Those conditions include: asthma, high blood pressure, smoking, Type 1 diabetes, liver disease, pregnancy, cystic fibrosis, neurologic conditions such as dementia, and cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 June 2020
  • Among them were chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and obesity.
    Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The neurosurgeon specializes in cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery at Geisinger Medical Center in Pennsylvania.
    Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Patients who had a psychiatric diagnosis were also more likely to have underlying medical comorbidities like malignant cancer, cerebrovascular disease, congestive heart failure, diabetes, kidney disease, liver disease, heart issues, or HIV.
    Korin Miller, Health.com, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Romero interpreted a chart showing state figures on deaths associated with comorbidities — primarily hypertensive disease, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, heart failure and cerebrovascular disease.
    Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2020

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