Vascular mechanisms of cognitive impairment: Roles of hypertension and subsequent small vessel disease under sympathetic influences

Hypertension Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-31

  Akiguchi, Ichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Yasumasa ^b  

^a Center for Cerebrovascular Disease   (Japan)

^b KYOTO SECOND RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ALPHA ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BRAIN INFARCTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MICROANGIOPATHY; NOTE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPERTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; CAPILLARIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NERVE ENDINGS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 74349102912     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2009.189     Document Type: Note

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