Impact of age, sex and exercise on brachial and popliteal artery remodelling in humans

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 525-530

  Green, Daniel J ^a,c   Swart, Anne ^b   Exterkate, Anne ^b   Naylor, Louise H ^c   Black, Mark A ^a   Cable, N Timothy ^a   Thijssen, Dick H J ^a,b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Arterial remodelling; Exercise training; Wall lumen ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHEAR STRESS; SITTING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPLITEAL ARTERY; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 77953232047     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.01.048     Document Type: Article

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