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The science is limited by few studies with repeated measures of arterial stiffness progression, especially in children and diverse racial/ethnic groups.
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May aid vascular aging monitoring; leaves open stiffness as modifiable prevention target.
Changes in arterial stiffness are evident in early childhood. In adults, arterial stiffness has been observed to progress at the average rate of 0.2 to 0.7 m/s for every 5 years of life. The state of the science is limited by the small number of studies with repeated measures of arterial stiffness and determinants of arterial stiffness progression, as well as limited studies in children and diverse race/ethnic groups. Several extant studies suggest that beyond age, cardiometabolic risk factors and adverse lifestyle behaviors contribute to arterial stiffening. Therefore, arterial stiffness is important in the assessment of healthy vascular aging and a possible target for the prevention of subclinical and clinical disease.
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Kucharska‐Newton et al. (2018) studied this question.
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