Does increased aortic stiffness predict all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease?
Aortic stiffness measured by pulse wave velocity is a strong independent predictor of mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease.
These results provide the first direct evidence that in patients with ESRD, increased aortic stiffness determined by measurement of aortic PWV is a strong independent predictor of all-cause and mainly cardiovascular mortality.
Blacher et al. (1999) studied this question.