Association between brain amyloid deposition and longitudinal changes of white matter hyperintensities.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study protocol was approved by the institutional review boards of the Seoul National University Hospital (C-1401-027-547) and the Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University (SMG-SNU) Boramae Medical Center (26-2015-60), in Seoul, South Korea; and we conducted it in accordance with the recommendations of the current version of the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants involved in the study. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. ConsortiaFor the KBASE Research Group. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This study was supported by grants from the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning, Republic of Korea (Grant No: NRF-2014M3C7A1046042 & NRF-2020R1G1A1099652) and grants of the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (Grant No: HI18C0630 & HI19C0149), and a grant from the National Institute of Aging, United States of America (U01AG072177)."