Aortic Stiffness, Blood Pressure Progression, and Incident Hypertension
Why the study?
Is higher aortic stiffness associated with an increased risk of incident hypertension?
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Cohort (no further details provided)
Design
Cohort
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Discussion
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Implication
Supports aortic stiffness assessment for hypertension risk stratification; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective trials before clinical adoption.
Structured PICO
Is higher aortic stiffness associated with an increased risk of incident hypertension?
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Population
Cohort (no further details provided)
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Intervention
Higher aortic stiffness, forward wave amplitude (FWA), and augmentation index (exposure)
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Outcome
Incident hypertension and progressive aortic stiffeninghard clinical
Aortic stiffness appears to precede and predict incident hypertension, whereas initial blood pressure does not independently predict progressive aortic stiffening.
Cite This Study
Kaess et al. (2012) studied this question.