Elderly women regulate brain blood flow better than men do

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1988-1993

  Deegan, Brian M ^a   Sorond, Farzaneh A ^b,c,d   Galica, Andrew ^d   Lipsitz, Lewis A ^c,d,e   O'Laighin, Gearoid ^a   Serrador, Jorge M ^a,b,c,f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Hebrew Senior Life   (United States)

^e BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

blood pressure; cerebral autoregulation; cerebral blood flow; sex

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FALLING; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITTING; STANDING; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 79959950567     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.605618     Document Type: Article

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