Table 2

Correlations among the EPVS scores and WM lesion scales

	HC EPVS	Longstreth	Breteler	VS anterior	VS posterior	Fazekas PVH	Fazekas DWMH	Shimada	Wahlund	WML factor
*Correlation significant at the 0.05 level (two tailed).
**Correlation significant at the 0.01 level (two tailed).
For abbreviations see table 1.
EPVS	0.35**	0.43**	0.32**	0.25*	0.30**	0.50**	0.43**	0.26*	0.48**	0.48**
HC EPVS		0.21*	0.11	0.11	0.10	0.29**	0.03	0.13	0.12	0.09
Longstreth			0.75**	0.74**	0.75**	0.84**	0.71**	0.76**	0.76**	0.90**
Breteler				0.90**	0.90**	0.65**	0.67**	0.85**	0.74**	0.92**
VS anterior					0.91**	0.64**	0.67**	0.85**	0.70**	0.89**
VS posterior						0.65**	0.68**	0.83**	0.70**	0.92**
Fazekas PVH							0.61**	0.67**	0.69**	0.84**
Fazekas DWMH								0.70**	0.84**	0.87**
Shimada									0.76**	0.93**
Wahlund										0.90**