News Finding: aEURoeVascular compliance is a useful marker for a number of cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes,aEUR Wang said.
Paper Finding: 5.
News Context: That team found that the stiffer the arteries were, the smaller the change in the arterial blood volume between the two cardiac phases, because stiff arteries are not as able to change shape or comply with the blood pressure changes as elastic arteries are, said study senior author Danny J.J. Wang, an associate professor of neurology and a researcher in the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA. aEURoeVascular compliance is a useful marker for a number of cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes,aEUR Wang said. The UCLA team compared stiffness measurements in young and elderly patients, and found that arterial stiffness is significantly increased in elderly patients.
Paper Context: A reduction of VC with age (r = − 0.52, p = 0.026) was observed, which is consistent with the finding shown in Fig. 5. 6b shows the scatter plot between global CBF measured by 3D GRASE pCASL and age across subjects, which indicates a significant trend of decreasing gray matter (GM) CBF with aging (r = −0.49, p = 0.041).