Blood pressure, internal carotid artery flow parameters, and age-related white matter hyperintensities

Hypertension

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1011-1018

  Aribisala, Benjamin S ^a,b,c   Morris, Zoe ^a,d   Eadie, Elizabeth ^a,d   Thomas, Avril ^d   Gow, Alan ^a,e   Valdés Hernández, Maria C ^a,b   Royle, Natalie A ^a,b   Bastin, Mark E ^a,b   Starr, John ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Scottish Imaging Network   (United Kingdom)

^c LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^d WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Blood flow velocity; Blood pressure; Cerebrovascular disorders; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; COMMUNITY LIVING; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY PULSATILITY INDEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY; WHITE MATTER LESION;

AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AGED; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84902266050     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.113.02735     Document Type: Article

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