Higher systolic blood pressure is associated with increased water diffusivity in normal-appearing white matter

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3869-3871

  MacLullich, Alasdair M J ^a,b,f   Ferguson, Karen J ^c,d   Reid, Louise M ^a   Deary, Ian J ^d,f   Starr, John M ^a,f   Seckl, Jonathan R ^b,f   Bastin, Mark E ^c,e,f   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^c,d,f  

^a Geriatric Medicine

^b SFC Brain Imaging Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c Division of Clinical Neurosciences   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e Medical Physics   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Brain imaging; Diffusion tensor imaging; MRI; White matter

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; WATER;

AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WATER; CEREBRUM; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 73449139407     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.547877     Document Type: Article

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