Healthy middle-aged individuals are vulnerable to cognitive deficits as a result of increased arterial stiffness

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1724-1729

  Pase, Matthew P ^a   Pipingas, Andrew ^a   Kras, Marni ^a   Nolidin, Karen ^a   Gibbs, Amy L ^a   Wesnes, Keith A ^a   Scholey, Andrew B ^a   Stough, Con ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ageing; arterial stiffness; brain; cognition; cognitive drug research (CDR); hypertension; memory; pulse pressure; pulse wave velocity; reflected waves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUGMENTATION INDEX; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 77954959904     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e32833b1ee7     Document Type: Article

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