Effect of arterial lumen enlargement on carotid arterial compliance in normotensive postmenopausal women

Hypertension Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 323-329

  Sugawara, Jun ^a   Otsuki, Takeshi ^a,b   Maeda, Seiji ^b   Tanabe, Takumi ^b   Kuno, Shinya ^b   Ajisaka, Ryuichi ^b   Matsuda, Mitsuo ^b  

^a Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Arterial compliance; Carotid artery; Remodeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PULSE WAVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TONOMETER; ULTRASOUND;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPLIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PULSATILE FLOW;

EID: 21244481331     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.28.323     Document Type: Article

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