Cerebrovascular Damage Mediates Relations Between Aortic Stiffness and Memory

Hypertension

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 176-182

  Cooper, Leroy L ^a,b   Woodard, Todd ^a   Sigurdsson, Sigurdur ^c   Van Buchem, Mark A ^d   Torjesen, Alyssa A ^a   Inker, Lesley A ^e   Aspelund, Thor ^c,f   Eiriksdottir, Gudny ^c   Harris, Tamara B ^g   Gudnason, Vilmundur ^c,f   Launer, Lenore J ^g   Mitchell, Gary F ^a  

^a CARDIOVASCULAR ENGINEERING INC   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ICELANDIC HEART ASSOCIATION   (Iceland)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; dementia; hemodynamics; memory; vascular stiffness

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VASCULAR RESISTANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID FEMORAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEMORY; MICROVASCULAR ISCHEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER LESION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; FOLLOW UP; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; THORACIC AORTA;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PULSATILE FLOW; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84951567982     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.06398     Document Type: Article

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