Suchergebnisse

Arterial ageing is characterized by increasing arterial stiffness as measured by pulse wave velocity (PWV). This process is enhanced in participants with early vascular ageing (EVA), but slowed in participants with healthy vascular ageing (HVA). We aimed to describe characteristics of EVA and HVA in a transcontinental study including 11 cohorts. ; The Asklepios Study is supported by the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (FWO research grants G042703 and G083810N). The Rotterdam Study is supported by the Erasmus Medical Center and Erasmus University Rotterdam; the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research; the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Devel- opment (ZonMw); the Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (RIDE); the Netherlands Heart Foundation; the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; the Ministry of Health Welfare and Sports; the European Commission; and the Municipality of Rotterdam. The SardiNIA team was supported by Contract NO1-AG- 1–2109 from the NIA. This research was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Institute on Aging (USA). The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA) is supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Institute on Aging. The Kingmen Aging Study was supported, in part, by a grant from the National Science Council (NSC 99-2314-B- 010-034-MY3), an intramural grant from the Taipei Veterans General Hospital (grant V102C-119), Research and Devel- opment contract NO1-AG-1–2118, and the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health. The Malmoe Diet Cancer – Cardiovascular Study was supported by grants from the Swedish Research Council (K2008-65X-20752-01-3, K2011-65X-20752-04-6), the Lund- stroms Foundation, the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation (2010-0244; 2013-0249) and ALF government grants (Dnr: 2012/1789) ...