Ischaemic stroke or TIA in older subjects associated with impaired dynamic blood pressure control in the absence of severe large artery stenosis

Age and Ageing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 655-661

  Ryan, D J ^a   Kenny, R A ^a   Christensen, S ^b   Meaney, J F M ^c   Fagan, A J ^c   Harbison, J A ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Neuroimaging; Older people; Stroke; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BORDERZONE INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID SINUS SYNDROME; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCRIPTION; PRESYNCOPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; STROKE PATIENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STROKE; SYNCOPE; TIME FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; SYNCOPE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84937409497     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afv011     Document Type: Article

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