Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22086659›Full record

ArticleAge (Dordrecht, Netherlands)2013

Blood pressure and TNF-α act synergistically to increase leucocyte CD11b adhesion molecule expression in the BELFAST study: implications for better blood pressure control in ageing.

I Maeve Rea, Susan E McNerlan, Denis H Alexander, Michelle E Armstrong

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Article in Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

I Maeve ReaDepartment of Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Queens University Belfast, Belfast 9, UK. i.rea@qub.ac.uk
Susan E McNerlan
Denis H Alexander
Michelle E Armstrong
Belfast City Hospital · GBBelfast Health and Social Care Trust · GBQueens University · BDUniversity College Dublin · IE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypertension, a key risk factor for stroke, cardiovascular disease and dementia, is associated with chronic vascular inflammation, and although poorly understood, putative mechanisms include pro-inflammatory responses induced by mechanical stretching, with cytokine release and associated up-regulated expression of adhesion molecules. Because blood pressure increases with age, we measured baseline and tumour necrosis alpha (TNF-α)-stimulated CD11b/CD18 adhesion molecule expression on leucocytes to assess any association between the two. In 38 subjects (mean age 85 years), consecutively enrolled from Belfast Elderly Longitudinal Free-Living Aging Study (BELFAST), baseline and TNF-α-stimulated CD11b/CD18 expression on separated monocytes and neutrophils increased with systolic blood pressure >120 mmHg (p = 0.05) and for lymphocytes, with diastolic blood pressure >80 mmHg (p < 0.05).These findings show increased potential stickiness of intravascular cells with increasing blood pressure which is accentuated by TNF-α, and suggest mechanistic reasons why better hypertension control is important.

Indexed as

Aged, 80 and overAgingBlood PressureBlood Pressure DeterminationCD11b AntigenCell AdhesionDisease ProgressionFemaleHumansHypertensionLeukocytesMaleTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaUp-RegulationCD11b AntigenITGAM protein, humanTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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PMID22086659
PMCPMC3543751
OpenAlexW1997422230

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