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ReviewAging and disease2017

Age-related Impairment of Vascular Structure and Functions.

Xianglai Xu, Brian Wang, Changhong Ren, Jiangnan Hu, David A Greenberg, Tianxiang Chen, Liping Xie, Kunlin Jin

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Review in Aging and disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 178 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

178 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Xianglai Xu1Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
Brian Wang2Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.
Changhong Ren2Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.
Jiangnan Hu2Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.
David A Greenberg5Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA 94945, USA.
Tianxiang Chen6Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
Liping Xie3Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Province, China.
Kunlin Jin2Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among age-related diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are major causes of death. Vascular dysfunction is a key characteristic of these diseases wherein age is an independent and essential risk factor. The present work will review morphological alterations of aging vessels in-depth, which includes the discussion of age-related microvessel loss and changes to vasculature involving the capillary basement membrane, intima, media, and adventitia as well as the accompanying vascular dysfunctions arising from these alterations.

Indexed as

arterial stiffnessendothelial dysfunctionvascular agingvascular remodeling

Identifiers

PMID28966804
PMCPMC5614324

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