Vascular compliance is reduced in vascular dementia and not in Alzheimer's disease

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 653-659

  Dhoat, Sasha ^a   Ali, Khalid ^b   Bulpitt, Christopher J ^a   Rajkumar, Chakravarthi ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Aortic compliance; Blood pressure; Dementia; Elderly; Vascular

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; PULSATILE FLOW; RADIAL ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 56749158642     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn158     Document Type: Article

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