Population
364 healthy subjects, ages 18-80 years. Excluded: known or suspected cerebrovascular disorders, systemic…
Design
Cross-sectional
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May inform age- and sex-specific TCD interpretation in healthy Caucasians; leaves open validation in other populations and clinical settings.
This study provides reference Transcranial Doppler values for a large cohort of healthy subjects, demonstrating that mean blood flow velocities decrease and pulsatility index increases with age, particularly in Caucasians, and that velocities are generally higher in women.
Tegeler et al. (2012) studied this question.
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