Contribution of the Arterial System and the Heart to Blood Pressure during Normal Aging – A Simulation Study

• Elira Maksuti ,

  * E-mail: elira.maksuti@sth.kth.se

  Affiliations Department of Medical Engineering, School of Technology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9654-447X

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• Nico Westerhof,

  Affiliation Departments of Physiology and Pulmonary Diseases, ICaR-VU, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Berend E. Westerhof,

  Affiliations Edwards Lifesciences BMEYE, Critical Care Noninvasive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Heart Failure Research Center, Laboratory for Clinical Cardiovascular Physiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Michael Broomé,

  Affiliations Department of Medical Engineering, School of Technology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, ECMO Department, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Nikos Stergiopulos

  Affiliation Laboratory of Hemodynamics and Cardiovascular Technology, Institute of Bioengineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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