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ArticleScientific reports2024

Influence of age on the relation between body position and noninvasively acquired intracranial pulse waves.

Andrea Boraschi, Matthias Hafner, Andreas Spiegelberg, Vartan Kurtcuoglu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. 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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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andrea BoraschiThe Interface Group, Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland.
Matthias HafnerThe Interface Group, Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland.
Andreas SpiegelbergThe Interface Group, Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland.
Vartan KurtcuogluThe Interface Group, Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland. vartan.kurtcuoglu@uzh.ch.
University of Zurich · CHSwiss Integrative Center for Human Health · CH

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 205321_182683Universität Zürich FK-23-029
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The capacitive measurement of the head's dielectric properties has been recently proposed as a noninvasive method for deriving surrogates of craniospinal compliance (CC), a parameter used in the evaluation of space-occupying neurological disorders. With the higher prevalence of such disorders in the older compared to the younger population, data on the head's dielectric properties of older healthy individuals would be of particularly high value before assessing pathologic changes. However, so far only measurements on young volunteers (< 30 years) were reported. In the present study, we have investigated the capacitively obtained electric signal known as W in older healthy individuals. Thirteen healthy subjects aged > 60 years were included in the study. W was acquired in the resting state (supine horizontal position), and during head-up and head-down tilting. AMP, the peak-to-valley amplitude of W related to cardiac action, was extracted from W. AMP was higher in this older cohort compared to the previously investigated younger one (0°: 5965 ± 1677 arbitrary units (au)). During head-up tilting, AMP decreased (+ 60°: 4446 ± 1620 au, P < 0.001), whereas it increased during head-down tilting (- 30°: 7600 ± 2123 au, P < 0.001), as also observed in the younger cohort. Our observation that AMP, a metric potentially reflective of CC, is higher in the older compared to the younger cohort aligns with the expected decrease of CC with age. Furthermore, the robustness of AMP is reinforced by the consistent relative changes observed during tilt testing in both cohorts.

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Head-Down TiltPostureAgedElectricityEnvironmentHealth StatusHumans

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