Associations of arterial stiffness with cognitive performance, and the role of microvascular dysfunction

How is your doctor treating your arterial stiffness? This stiffness is precisely why you should never get your neck cracked by a chiropractor, with no testing you have no clue how flexible your vertebral arteries are.  

You and your chiropractor are making the assumption with no knowledge that your cervical arteries running thru your spine are flexible enough and contain no plaque that they will withstand the twisting motion.  How do you know that is the case?

For a brief period of time, chiropractic applies 58% to 87% of the force of a suspended hanging. Calculations here:  Chiropractic force

Chiropractic apologist here for their side of the story, equal opportunity and all: 

DEBUNKED: The Odd Myth That Chiropractors Cause Strokes Revisited

 

So if you have arterial stiffness what the fuck is your doctor's protocol to address the problem? Maybe something in one of these?

• stiff arteries (11)

• Arterial stiffness (20) 

The latest here:

Associations of arterial stiffness with cognitive performance, and the role of microvascular dysfunction

Rensma SP, Stehouwer CDA, Van Boxtel MPJ

Hypertension

May 15, 2020

This study was conducted to evaluate whether and how arterial stiffness is associated with cognitive performance, and the role of microvascular dysfunction. Researchers selected cross-sectional data of 2,544 individuals (age, 59.7 years; 51.0% men; 26.0% type 2 diabetes mellitus). Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity and carotid distensibility coefficient were applied as measures of aortic and carotid stiffness, respectively. A composite score of microvascular dysfunction based on magnetic resonance imaging features of cerebral small vessel disease, flicker light-induced retinal arteriolar and venular dilation response, albuminuria, and plasma biomarkers of microvascular dysfunction (soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1, soluble vascular adhesion molecule-1, sE-selectin [soluble E-selectin], and von Willebrand factor) were estimated. The data exhibited that aortic stiffness, but not carotid stiffness, is independently correlated with worse cognitive performance, and that this correlation is in part explained by microvascular dysfunction.

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