Antihypertensive treatment can normalize structural and functional properties of different arteries in elderly patients;Le traitement antihypertenseur peut normaliser la geometrie et la fonction arterielle chez le sujet age

Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1063-1066

  Hanon, O ^a   Bortolotto, L ^a   Legrain, S ^b   Forette, F ^b   Safar, M ^a   Girerd, X ^a  

^a HÔPITAL BROUSSAIS   (France)

^b Fondation de Gèrontologie ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIAL ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGING; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RADIAL ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032810286     PISSN: 00039683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Nichols WW, O'Rourke MF. Ageing high blood pressure and disease in humans. In McDonald's Blood Flow in arteries. London : Edward Arnold, 1990 : 398-420.
2. Virmani R, Avolio A, Mergner W et al. Effect of aging on aortic morphology in populations with high and low prevalence of hypertension and atherosclerosis. Am J Pathol 1991 ; 139 : 1119-29.
3. Staessen J, Amery A, Fagard R. Isolated systolic hypertension in the elderly. J Hypertens 1990 ; 8 : 393-405.
4. Hoeks A, Brands P, Smeets G, Reneman R. Assessment of the distensibility of superficial arteries. Ultrasound Med Biol 1990 ; 16 : 121-8.
5. Girerd X, Mourad JJ, Acar C et al. Noninvasive measurement of medium-sized artery intima-media thickness in humans: in vitro validation. J Vasc Res 1994 ; 31 : 114-20.
6. Laurent S, Caviezel B, Beck L et al. Carotid artery distensibility and distending pressure in hypertensive humans. Hypertension 1994 ; 23 (2) : 878-83.
7. Laurent S, Girerd X, Mourad JJ et al. Elastic modulus of the radial artery wall is not increased in patients with essential hypertension. Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis 1994 ; 14 : 1223-31.
8. Boutouyrie P, Laurent S, Benetos A, Girerd X, Hoeks A, Safer M. Opposing effects of ageing on distal and proximal large arteries in hypertensives. J Hypertens 1992 ; 10 (suppl. 6) : 87-91.
9. Laurent S. Arterial wall hypertrophy and stiffness in essential hypertensive patients. Hypertension 1995 ; 26 : 355-62.
10. Girerd X, Giannattasio C, Moulin C, Safar M, Mancia G, Laurent S. Regression of radial artery wall hypertrophy and improvement of carotid artery compliance after long-term antihypertensive treatment in elderly patients. J Am Coll Cardiol 1998 ; 31 (5) : 1064-73.