I bet no one will take this information and use it to create translational stroke prevention protocols. Because we have NO stroke strategy by any of our stroke associations. They are all JUST WAITING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM!
I've only got 7 posts on stiff arteries that I'm sure your doctor already knows about and has protocols to correct. You do realize that I'm lying about the last half of the previous sentence
http://neurosciencenews.com/vascular-compliance-alzheimers-neurology-2706/
UCLA researchers have discovered a non-invasive method to
measure vascular compliance, or how stiff an artery is, in the human
brain, a finding that may have ramifications for preventing stroke and
the early diagnoses of Alzheimer’s disease.
Using a new MRI technique, the UCLA team measured the volume of
cerebral arteries twice using a technique called Arterial Spin Labeling,
which can magnetically “label” the blood in arteries without the use of
an external agent. The team measured once at the systolic phase of the
cardiac cycle, when the heart was pumping the blood into the brain, and
again at the diastolic phase, when the heart was relaxing.
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.
“Vascular compliance is a useful marker for a number of
cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes,” Wang said.
“Growing evidence suggests intracranial vascular pathology also may be
associated with the origin and progression of cerebrovascular disorders
and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, which is
the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. However, to date,
few methods are available to assess it.”
The study appears this week in the peer-reviewed journal NeuroImage.
The UCLA team compared stiffness measurements in young and elderly
patients, and found that arterial stiffness is significantly increased
in elderly patients. This finding is consistent with the theory that
aging is associated with stiffening of the arteries. They also found
that increased arterial stiffness is associated with reduced cerebral
blood flow, suggesting stiff arteries impair the blood supply to the
brain. Additionally, they found artery stiffness is correlated with the
stiffness of the largest artery of the human body, the aorta.
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