Brain microbleeds, amyloid plaques, intellectual deterioration, and arterial stiffness

Hypertension

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  O'Rourke, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETERIORATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEART LEFT RIGHT SHUNT; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; INFLAMMATION; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LETTER; LUNG CIRCULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; RECUMBENCY; SENILE PLAQUE; SITTING; SLEEP; STANDING; WHITE MATTER;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MICROCIRCULATION; SENILE PLAQUES; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 39749149632     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.109199     Document Type: Letter

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