Postprandial Changes in Thoracic Aortic Flow Detected by 4D Flow MRI May Influence Study Results
Maren Friederike Balks, Luisa Quest, Andreas Stroth, Alexander Reiber, Patricia Ulloa, Nicolas Kirschke, Malte Maria Sieren, Joachim Graessner, Hendrik Kooijman, Jörg Barkhausen, Alex Frydrychowicz, Thekla Helene Oechtering · 2026
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Maren Friederike Balks and colleagues ask whether a meal changes blood flow in the chest aorta enough to skew scan studies, in a 2026 study. Twenty young healthy adults, half of them women, had flow scans of the aorta after fasting and again after eating. The scanner tracks flow in three directions over time, giving beat by beat measures of volume, speed, and peak flow.
Eating nudged every measure up by a small but real margin. Peak flow rose in about three quarters of the group, and the top speed climbed the most of the set. The shifts were modest next to person to person spread. Still, the authors warn that mixed fasting states across visits or sites could tilt study results, so meal timing deserves a note in scan protocols.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maren Friederike Balks, Luisa Quest, Andreas Stroth, Alexander Reiber, Patricia Ulloa, Nicolas Kirschke, Malte Maria Sieren, Joachim Graessner, Hendrik Kooijman, Jörg Barkhausen, Alex Frydrychowicz, Thekla Helene Oechtering |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26576 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |