Effect of aging on dynamic cerebral autoregulation during head-up tilt.

نویسندگان

  • Brian J Carey
  • Ronney B Panerai
  • John F Potter
چکیده

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Physiological aging is associated with many changes in the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems, but dynamic cerebral autoregulation (CA) during supine rest shows no age-related changes. Because syncopal syndromes usually occur during orthostatic stress and their prevalence increases with age, it is important to define the effect of aging on dynamic CA during orthostatic stress. METHODS Twenty-five younger subjects (/=60 years) underwent 70 degrees head-up tilt for 30 minutes. Bilateral middle cerebral artery blood flow velocities were measured with transcranial Doppler ultrasound, along with noninvasive continuous measurements of arterial blood pressure, heart rate, and transcutaneous and end-tidal carbon dioxide concentrations. By comparing actual changes in cerebral blood flow velocity to changes predicted by a model based on arterial blood pressure changes, we derived dynamic autoregulatory indexes for each subject for periods before, during, and after tilt. RESULTS Younger subjects were a mean of 40 years younger than older subjects (28+/-8 versus 69+/-10 years). Although cerebral blood flow velocity (P<0.001) and baroreceptor sensitivity (P<0.001) were significantly lower at rest in older subjects, autoregulatory indexes were similar in younger and older subjects at all times before, during, and after tilt (P=0.62). CONCLUSIONS Although increasing age is associated with lower cardiac baroreceptor sensitivity and cerebral blood flow velocity, dynamic CA during orthostatic stress is unaffected by physiological aging.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Stroke

دوره 34 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003