Blood Flow Pattern in the Middle Cerebral Artery in Relation to Indices of Arterial Stiffness in the Systemic Circulation
Population
334 untreated subjects referred for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, mean age 50.9 years, 45.4% women…
Design
Cross-sectional
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Discussion
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Implication
Observed cerebral-systemic pulsatility links are hypothesis-generating; should not yet change practice or guide interventions.
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Population
334 untreated subjects referred for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, mean age 50.9 years, 45.4% women, based in Shanghai, China.
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Outcome
Association of middle cerebral artery (MCA) pulsatility index (PI) with indices of arterial stiffness (pulse pressure and pulse wave velocity)surrogate
Middle cerebral artery blood flow pulsatility is closely associated with systemic pulsatile pressure and arterial stiffness, particularly brachial pulse pressure.
Cite This Study
Tian et al. (2011) studied this question.