Early vascular aging (EVA) : new directions in cardiovascular protection / edited by Peter M. Nilsson, Michael H. Olsen, Stéphane Laurent

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historical aspects and biology of aging / Peter M. Nilsson -- Cellular and molecular determinants of arterial aging / Patrick Lacolley [and 4 others] -- Aging population : challenges and opportunities in a life course perspective / Angelo Scuteri and Peter M. Nilsson -- Population-based studies : milestones on the epidemiological timeline / Ernst Rietzschel and Pedro G. Cunha -- Lessons from the Amsterdam growth and health longitudinal study / Isabel Ferreira and Roel J. Van de Laar -- Cardiovascular aging : perspectives from the Baltimore longitudinal study of aging (BLSA) / Shweta Shukla and Edward G. Lakatta -- Changes in peripheral blood pressure with normal and accelerated aging / Stanley S. Franklin and Michael H. Olsen -- Changes in arterial stiffness with normal and accelerated aging / Pierre Boutouyrie and Trine K. Sønder -- Changes in central hemodynamics, wave reflection, and heart-vessel coupling with normal and accelerated aging / Thomas Weber and Patrick Segers -- Early aging of endothelial function and platelet-vessel wall interactions / Veronique Regnault, Jérémy Lagrange, and Patrick Lacolley -- The cross-talk between the macro- and the microcirculation / Stéphane Laurent and Enrico Agabiti-Rosei -- Arterial stiffnes and blood pressure variability / Gianfranco Parati [and 3 others] -- Early vascular aging in the young : influence of birth weight and prematurity / Peter M. Nilsson and Carmel M. McEnery -- Age-induced endothelial dysfunction and intima-media thickening / Michaela Kozakova and Arno Schmidt-Truksäss -- Glucose metabolism, diabetes, and the arterial wall / Coen D.A. Stehouwer [and 3 others] -- Chronic inflammation and atherosclerosis / Jan Nilsson, Isabel Gonçalves, and Andreas Edsfeldt -- Early and late stages of chronic kidney disease in relation to arterial changes / Panagiotis I. Georgianos and Pantelis A. Sarafidis -- Non-hemodynamic components of EVA : polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) / Irene Lambrinoudaki -- Impace of arterial aging on early and late stages of brain damage / Angelo Scuteri and Stephanie Debette -- Telomere biology and vascular aging / Frej Fyhrquist and Peter M. Nilsson -- Traditional versus new models of risk prediction / Thomas Sehestedt and Michael H. Olsen -- Imaging biomarkers : carotid intima-media thickness and aortic stiffness as predictors of cardiovascular disease / Costas Tsioufis and Charalambos Vlachopoulos -- Genetic markers in prediction of cardiovascular disease / Kate Witkowska, Meixia Ren, and Mark Caulfield -- Vascular aging and cardiovascular disease / Pedro G. Cunha and Michael H. Olsen -- Lifestyle intervention : what works? / Charalambos Vlachopoulos and Panagiotis Xaplanteris -- Targeting blood pressure lowering and the sympathetic nervous system / Dagmara Hering and Krzysztof Narkiewicz -- Targeting central blood pressure through the macro- and microcirculation cross-talk / Stéphane Laurent and Damiano Rizzoni -- Treatment aspects. Part I : Treatment of abnormalities in lipid metabolism and EVA / Vasilios Kotsis. Part II : Early vascular aging and obesity treatment / Jens Jordan. Treatment of abnormalities in glucose metabolism / Carl J. Östgren -- New drugs under development for cardiovascular prevention / Stéphane Laurent and Ulrike M. Steckelings -- Interventions to retard biological aging to be explored / Tine De Backer, Pierre Boutouyrie, and Luc van Bortel -- Immunization, vaccines, and Immunomodulation / Yimin Lu and Michel Burnier.