Woodward, Owen Bleddyn, Driver, Ian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6815-0134, Hart, Emma and Wise, Richard 2023. In search of a marker of altered cerebrovascular function in hypertension: Analysis of the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in UK Biobank resting state fMRI data. Cerebral Circulation - Cognition & Behavior 6 , 100196. 10.1016/j.cccb.2023.100196 |
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Abstract
The selfish brain mechanism proposes that in some patients with impaired cerebral blood flow (CBF) or cerebrovascular function, hypertension may develop as a compensatory mechanism that aims to maintain CBF by increasing systemic blood pressure through an increase in cardiovascular sympathetic tone. The amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (ALFF) in the resting state blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) functional MRI signal has been previously posited as an index of cerebrovascular reactivity. We investigated whether regional fractional ALFF (fALFF) differs between 2054 hypertensives and 1724 normotensives using data from the UK Biobank dataset. Our primary hypothesis was that cerebrovascular function in the medulla and other regions involved in sympathetic regulation differs between hypertensives and normotensives, and that this is reflected by regional variations in fALFF. There is a significant regional variation in fALFF (F(14) =1126.17, p < 2 × 10−16, partial η2 = 0.22), but this regional variation does not differ between hypertensives and normotensives (F(14) = 0.23, p = 0.99, partial η2 = 8 × 10−5). Prospective longitudinal studies of cerebral haemodynamics in hypertensives and normotensives are required to further investigate the selfish brain mechanism.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Psychology Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) |
Additional Information: | License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, Start Date: 2023-12-18 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
ISSN: | 2666-2450 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 2 January 2024 |
Date of Acceptance: | 18 December 2023 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2024 17:45 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/165159 |
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