Cerebrovascular hemodynamics in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia: A meta-analysis of transcranial Doppler studies

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 271-277

  Sabayan, Behnam ^a,b   Jansen, Steffy ^a,b   Oleksik, Anna M ^a   Van Osch, Matthias J P ^a   Van Buchem, Mark A ^a   Van Vliet, Peter ^a   De Craen, Anton J M ^a,c   Westendorp, Rudi G J ^a,b,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cerebrovascular hemodynamics; Meta analysis; Transcranial Doppler; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMBASE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84855901613     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: 18729649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2011.12.009     Document Type: Review

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