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Clinically reported covert cerebrovascular disease and risk of neurological disease: a whole-population cohort of 367 988 people using natural language processing.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 12 Jun 2026
Iveson Matthew Henry, Mukherjee Mome, Davidson Emma M, Zhang Huayu, Sherlock Laura, Ball Emily L, Mair Grant, Hosking Alice, Whalley Heather, Poon Michael T C, Wardlaw Joanna M, Kent David M, Tobin Richard, Grover Claire, Alex Beatrice, Whiteley William
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BACKGROUND: The relevance of covert cerebrovascular disease (CCD) in practice is uncertain, partly because estimation of risk in whole clinical populations is difficult. Studies have had success extracting CCD from clinical text using natural language processing (NLP), though they have been limited to specific CCD phenotypes. Here, we used NLP to measure multiple clinically-reported CCD phenotypes in a large...
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