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Stiffening of your blood vessels, particularly the large vessels from your heart (called the aorta and carotids) you age contributes to the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) such as heart attack and stroke. Nerve activity from your brain to your body also increases with advancing age but it is unknown if this nerve activity contributes directly to the stiffening on your blood vessels in older adults in addition to high blood pressure. Therefore, successful completion of the proposed aims will have a significant clinical impact by identifying if nerve activity from your brain could be a novel target for therapies that would lower stiffness of the aorta and carotid arteries in older adults.


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NCT number NCT04423627
Study type Interventional
Source University of Iowa
Contact Amy Stroud, RN, MSN
Phone 3193849549
Email amy-stroud@uiowa.edu
Status Recruiting
Phase Early Phase 1
Start date June 1, 2021
Completion date December 30, 2025

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