Mean arterial pressure change associated with cerebral blood flow in healthy older adults

Publication date: October 2016
Source:Neurobiology of Aging, Volume 46
Author(s): Jeremy Deverdun, Tasnime N. Akbaraly, Celine Charroud, Meriem Abdennour, Adam M. Brickman, Stephane Chemouny, Jason Steffener, Florence Portet, Alain Bonafe, Yaakov Stern, Karen Ritchie, François Molino, Emmanuelle Le Bars, Nicolas Menjot de Champfleur
We investigate over a 12-year period the association between regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cardiovascular risk factors in a prospective cohort of healthy older adults (81.96 ± 3.82 year-old) from the Cognitive REServe and Clinical ENDOphenotype (CRESCENDO) study. Cardiovascular risk factors were measured over 12 years, and gray matter CBF was measured at the end of the study from high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging using arterial spin labeling. The association between cardiovascular risk factors, their long-term change, and CBF was assessed using multivariate linear regression models. Women were observed to have higher CBF than men (p < 0.05). Increased mean arterial pressure (MAP) over the 12-year period was correlated with a low cerebral blood flow (p < 0.05, R² = 0.21), whereas no association was detected between CBF and MAP at the time of imaging. High levels of glycemia tended to be associated with low cerebral blood flow values (p < 0.05). Age, alcohol consumption, smoking status, body mass index, history of cardiovascular disease, and hypertension were not associated with CBF. Our main result suggests that change in MAP is the most significant predictor of future CBF in older adults.



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