Silent cerebral microbleeds associated with arterial stiffness in an apparently healthy subject

Hypertension Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 255-260

  Ochi, Namiko ^a   Tabara, Yasuharu ^a   Igase, Michiya ^a   Nagai, Tokihisa ^a   Kido, Tomoko ^a   Miki, Tetsuro ^a   Kohara, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; Microbleeds; Pulse wave velocity; Small vessel diseas

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULSE WAVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIPIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77952404444     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2009.13     Document Type: Article

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