A healthy aorta exerts a powerful cushioning function, which limits arterial pulsatility and protects the microvasculature from potentially harmful fluctuations in pressure and blood …
Advances in computational science offer a principled pipeline for predictive modeling of cardiovascular flows and aspire to provide a valuable tool for monitoring, diagnostics and …
Hypertension affects two-thirds of people aged> 60 years and significantly increases the risk of both vascular cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Hypertension compromises …
S Laurent, P Boutouyrie - Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Hypertension prevalence increases with age. Age and high blood pressure are the two main determinants of arterial stiffness. In elderly hypertensives, large arteries stiffen and systolic …
Townsend et al Vascular Research on Arterial Stiffness 699 pressure, blood flow, and arterial diameter change with each heartbeat. In addition to the passive mechanical …
P Toth, S Tarantini, A Csiszar… - American Journal of …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Increasing evidence from epidemiological, clinical and experimental studies indicate that age-related cerebromicrovascular dysfunction and microcirculatory damage play critical …
P Segers, ER Rietzschel, JA Chirinos - … , thrombosis, and vascular …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Despite the wide recognition of larger artery stiffness as a highly clinically relevant and independent prognostic biomarker, it has yet be incorporated into routine clinical practice …
Aims Several factors are known to increase risk for cerebrovascular disease and dementia, but there is limited evidence on associations between multiple vascular risk factors (VRFs) …