Gender related differences in cerebral autoregulation in older healthy subjects

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2859-2862

  Deegan, Brian M ^a   Sorond, Farzaneh A ^b,d   Lipsitz, Lewis A ^b,e   Ólaighin, Gearóid ^a   Serrador, Jorge M ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Hebrew Senior Life   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; CARBON DIOXIDE;

CEREBRAL AUTOREGULATION; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; GENDER-RELATED DIFFERENCES; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; INTRINSIC MECHANISMS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIT-TO-STAND; YOUNG ADULTS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 77951000960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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