TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of ageing on left ventricular compliance and distensibility in healthy sedentary humans
AU - Fujimoto, Naoki
AU - Hastings, Jeffrey L.
AU - Bhella, Paul S.
AU - Shibata, Shigeki
AU - Gandhi, Nainesh K.
AU - Carrick-Ranson, Graeme
AU - Palmer, Dean
AU - Levine, Benjamin D.
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - Healthy, but sedentary ageing leads to marked atrophy and stiffening of the heart, with substantially reduced cardiac compliance; but the time course of when this process occurs during normal ageing is unknown. Seventy healthy sedentary subjects (39 female; 21-77 years) were recruited from the Dallas Heart Study, a population-based, random community sample and enriched by a second random sample from employees of Texas Health Resources. Subjects were highly screened for co-morbidities and stratified into four groups according to age: G 21-34: 21-34 years, G 35-49: 35-49 years, G 50-64: 50-64 years, G ≥65: ≥65 years. All subjects underwent invasive haemodynamic measurements with right heart catheterization to define Starling and left ventricular (LV) pressure-volume curves. LV end-diastolic volumes (EDV) were measured by echocardiography at baseline, -15 and -30 mmHg lower-body negative pressure, and 15 and 30 ml kg -1 saline infusion with simultaneous measurements of pulmonary capillary wedge pressure. There were no differences in heart rate or blood pressures among the four groups at baseline. Baseline EDV index was smaller in G ≥65 than other groups. LV diastolic pressure-volume curves confirmed a substantially greater LV compliance in G 21-34 compared with G 50-64 and G ≥65, resulting in greater LV volume changes with preload manipulations. Although LV chamber compliance in G 50-64 and G ≥65 appeared identical, pressure-volume curves were shifted leftward, toward a decreased distensibility, with increasing age. These results suggest that LV stiffening in healthy ageing occurs during the transition between youth and middle-age and becomes manifest between the ages of 50 to 64. Thereafter, this LV stiffening is followed by LV volume contraction and remodelling after the age of 65.
AB - Healthy, but sedentary ageing leads to marked atrophy and stiffening of the heart, with substantially reduced cardiac compliance; but the time course of when this process occurs during normal ageing is unknown. Seventy healthy sedentary subjects (39 female; 21-77 years) were recruited from the Dallas Heart Study, a population-based, random community sample and enriched by a second random sample from employees of Texas Health Resources. Subjects were highly screened for co-morbidities and stratified into four groups according to age: G 21-34: 21-34 years, G 35-49: 35-49 years, G 50-64: 50-64 years, G ≥65: ≥65 years. All subjects underwent invasive haemodynamic measurements with right heart catheterization to define Starling and left ventricular (LV) pressure-volume curves. LV end-diastolic volumes (EDV) were measured by echocardiography at baseline, -15 and -30 mmHg lower-body negative pressure, and 15 and 30 ml kg -1 saline infusion with simultaneous measurements of pulmonary capillary wedge pressure. There were no differences in heart rate or blood pressures among the four groups at baseline. Baseline EDV index was smaller in G ≥65 than other groups. LV diastolic pressure-volume curves confirmed a substantially greater LV compliance in G 21-34 compared with G 50-64 and G ≥65, resulting in greater LV volume changes with preload manipulations. Although LV chamber compliance in G 50-64 and G ≥65 appeared identical, pressure-volume curves were shifted leftward, toward a decreased distensibility, with increasing age. These results suggest that LV stiffening in healthy ageing occurs during the transition between youth and middle-age and becomes manifest between the ages of 50 to 64. Thereafter, this LV stiffening is followed by LV volume contraction and remodelling after the age of 65.
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U2 - 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.218271
DO - 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.218271
M3 - Article
C2 - 22331419
AN - SCOPUS:84859727212
SN - 0022-3751
VL - 590
SP - 1871
EP - 1880
JO - Journal of Physiology
JF - Journal of Physiology
IS - 8
ER -