Relationship between sympathetic nerve activity and aortic wave reflection characteristics in postmenopausal women

Menopause

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 960-966

  Hart, Emma C ^a   Charkoudian, Nisha ^b   Joyner, Michael J ^a   Barnes, Jill N ^a   Curry, Timothy B ^a   Casey, Darren P ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic pressure; Menopause; Pressure wave reflection; Sympathetic nerve activity; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA PRESSURE; AORTIC WAVE REFLECTION; APPLANATION TONOMETER; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; NEUROGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PULSE WAVE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TONOMETRY; WAVEFORM; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AGE; AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULSATILE FLOW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGE FACTORS; AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; PULSATILE FLOW; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84896058594     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GME.0b013e3182843b59     Document Type: Article

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