Pulmonary Blood Volume Among Older Adults in the Community: The MESA Lung Study.

A Hermann, Emilia; Motahari, Amin; A Hoffman, Eric; Allen, Norrina; G Bertoni, Alain; A Bluemke, David; Eskandari, Ali; E Gerard, Sarah; Guo, Junfeng; T Hiura, Grant; W Kaczka, David; D Michos, Erin; Nagpal, Prashant; Pankow, Jim; Shah, Sanjiv; M Smith, Benjamin; Hinckley Stukovsky, Karen; Sun, Yifei; Watson, Karol; Graham Barr, R

doi:10.1161/circimaging.122.014380

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Pulmonary Blood Volume Among Older Adults in the Community: The MESA Lung Study.

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Authors:

Emilia A Hermann

Amin Motahari

Eric A Hoffman

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The pulmonary vasculature is essential for gas exchange and impacts both pulmonary and cardiac function. However, it is difficult to assess and its characteristics in the general population are unknown. We measured pulmonary blood volume (PBV) noninvasively using contrast enhanced, dual-...

Subject

aging

blood volume

physiology

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