Cortical cerebral blood flow in ageing: effects of haematocrit, sex, ethnicity and diabetes

Lorna Smith,Andrew Melbourne,David Owen,M. Jorge Cardoso,Carole H. Sudre,Therese Tillin,Magdalena Sokolska,David Atkinson,Nish Chaturvedi,Sebastien Ourselin,Alun D. Hughes,Frederik Barkhof,Hans Rolf Jäger

Cortical cerebral blood flow in ageing: effects of haematocrit, sex, ethnicity and diabetes

2019

Lorna Smith
Andrew Melbourne
David Owen
M. Jorge Cardoso
Carole H. Sudre
Therese Tillin
Magdalena Sokolska
David Atkinson
Nish Chaturvedi
Sebastien Ourselin
Alun D. Hughes
Frederik Barkhof
Hans Rolf Jäger

Objectives Cerebral blood flow (CBF) estimates from arterial spin labelling (ASL) show unexplained variability in older populations. We studied the impact of variation of haematocrit (Hct) on CBF estimates in a tri-ethnic elderly population.

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Pathology
Older Populations
Ageing
Cerebral blood flow
Internal medicine
Cardiology
Cerebrovascular Circulation
Medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Population
Radiology
Cohort
Perfusion
Confidence interval
south asia

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