Cerebral hemodynamics in normal aging: Central artery stiffness, wave reflection, and pressure pulsatility

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 971-978

  Tarumi, Takashi ^a,b   Ayaz Khan, Muhammad ^a,b   Liu, Jie ^a,b   Tseng, Benjamin M ^a,b   Parker, Rosemary ^a   Riley, Jonathan ^a   Tinajero, Cynthia ^a   Zhang, Rong ^a,b,c  

^a PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

age; arterial wave reflection; central arterial stiffness; cerebral hemodynamics; sex difference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TONOMETRY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84901846553     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2014.44     Document Type: Article

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