Gender specific patterns of age-related decline in aortic stiffness: A cardiovascular magnetic resonance study including normal ranges

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Nethononda, Richard M ^b   Lewandowski, Adam J ^c   Stewart, Ross ^a   Kylinterias, Ilias ^d   Whitworth, Polly ^a   Francis, Jane ^a   Leeson, Paul ^c   Watkins, Hugh ^a   Neubauer, Stefan ^a   Rider, Oliver J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Aorta; Cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULSE WAVE; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; AGING; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; CINE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELASTICITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924076881     PISSN: 10976647     EISSN: 1532429X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12968-015-0126-0     Document Type: Article

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