Ageing and cardiovascular responses to head-up tilt in healthy subjects

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 445-451

  Tahvanainen, Anna ^a   Leskinen, Miia ^a   Koskela, Jenni ^a   Ilveskoski, Erkki ^a,b   Nordhausen, Klaus ^c   Oja, Hannu ^c   Kähönen, Mika ^a,d   Kööbi, Tiit ^a   Mustonen, Jukka ^a,d   Pörsti, Ilkka ^a,d  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b PIRKANMAA HOSPITAL DISTRICT   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ageing; Arterial stiffness; Cardiac function; Head up tilt; Impedance cardiography; Pulse wave analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; HEAD TILTING; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INDEX; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STROKE; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; COMPLIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTURE; PULSATILE FLOW; RADIAL ARTERY; REFERENCE VALUES; SUPINE POSITION; TILT-TABLE TEST; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70450255239     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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