The relationship of age with regional aortic stiffness and diameter

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1247-1255

  Hickson, Stacey S ^a   Butlin, Mark ^b   Graves, Martin ^c   Taviani, Valentina ^c   Avolio, Alberto P ^b   McEniery, Carmel M ^a,b   Wilkinson, Ian B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aging; aortic diameter; cine phase contrast; magnetic resonance imaging; regional aortic pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AORTA; AORTA ARCH; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; THORACIC AORTA; TONOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AORTA; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650278803     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2010.09.016     Document Type: Article

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