Relationship between brain atrophy estimated by a longitudinal computed tomography study and blood pressure control in patients with essential hypertension

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 79-84

  Yamano, Shigeru ^a,b   Sawai, Fuyuki ^a,b   Yamamoto, Yuta ^a,b   Sawai, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Minami, Shigetoshi ^a,b   Akai, Mayumi ^a,b   Nomura, Kumiko ^a,b   Takaoka, Minoru ^a,b   Fukui, Rie ^a,b   Dohi, Kazuhiro ^a,b  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain atrophy; Common carotid blood volume; Computed tomography; Essential hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE;

AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ATROPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0346978023     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.63.79     Document Type: Article

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