Longitudinal systolic blood pressure characteristics and integrity of white matter tracts in a cohort of very old black and white adults

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 326-334

  Rosano, Caterina ^a   Abebe, Kaleab Z ^b   Aizenstein, Howard J ^b   Boudreau, Robert ^a   Jennings, J Richard ^b   Venkatraman, Vijay ^c   Harris, Tamara B ^d   Yaffe, Kristine ^e   Satterfield, Suzanne ^f   Newman, Anne B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Diffusion tensor imaging; Hypertension; Systolic blood pressure; White matter

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WHITE MATTER; BLOOD PRESSURE; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84983340416     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: 19417225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpu134     Document Type: Article

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