Relationship between sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity and arterial stiffness in elderly men and women

Hypertension

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 98-104

  Okada, Yoshiyuki ^a,b   Galbreath, M Melyn ^a,b   Shibata, Shigeki ^a,b   Jarvis, Sara S ^a,b   Vangundy, Tiffany B ^a   Meier, Rhonda L ^a   Vongpatanasin, Wanpen ^b   Levine, Benjamin D ^a,b   Fu, Qi ^a,b  

^a PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

stiffness; aging; baroreceptors; muscle sympathetic nerve activity; sex differences

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX;

AGED; AGING; BAROREFLEX; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PERONEAL NERVE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 83655184679     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.176560     Document Type: Article

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