Author(s): M. Celant; E. F. Toro; L. O. Muller; P. J. Blanco

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Keywords: Selfish-brain hypothesis; Hypertension; Mathematical modelling; Cerebral blood flow

Abstract: We use a global model of the human circulation, accounting for an autoregulation mechanism of brain hemodynamics and a sophisticated closure condition for viscous dissipation to study a novel vascular hypothesis about the onset of essential hypertension.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-11-2731-1_378-cd

Year: 2018