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| Dynamics of cardiovascular ageing | | Author(s) | Aneta Stefanovska, Peter V E McClintock, P Jane Owen-Lynch |
| Corporate Author | New Dynamics of Ageing Programme - NDA; Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield |
| Publisher | New Dynamics of Ageing - NDA, Sheffield, 2013 |
| Pages | 4 pp (NDA Findings 19) |
| Source | NDA Research Programme, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield S10 2TU. www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk Download: http://newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk/nda-findings-1... |
| Keywords | Cardiovascular systems ; Biological ageing ; Projects ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | This project studied the age-related alterations that occur in the cardiovascular system - the heart, lungs and network of arteries and veins that carry oxygenated blood and nutrients to every cell of the body and remove the waste products of metabolism. It was already known that the phase of breathing affects the rate at which the heart beats, but that this effect decreases as we age. The research has associated this reduction in heart-lung interaction with changes in the endothelium, the inner lining of all the blood vessels. It involved making non-invasive measurements of blood flow in the skin of 200 healthy subjects of all ages. The analysis focused on very low frequency oscillations in blood flow that can give a measure of the state of the endothelium. This is a summary of the project's key findings and the methods used. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160429002 P |
| Classmark | BKK: BH: 3E: 3A:6KC * |
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