Understanding Why People With Spinal Cord Injury Experience Episodes of Very High Blood Pressure
Grant number: 1024485 | Funding period: 2012 - 2015
Completed
Abstract
People with spinal cord injury not only lose control of their arms and legs but also lose control of their bladder and bowel. They also have poor control of blood pressure and an overfull bladder or bowel can lead to dangerously high blood pressure. In this project, we are investigating how this abnormal high blood pressure is generated. The aim is to develop treatments which target the mechanisms which increase the blood pressure responses elicited by the bladder and bowel.