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Is emphysema severity associated with arterial stiffness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
Is emphysema severity associated with arterial stiffness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
Emphysema severity is independently associated with arterial stiffness in COPD patients, suggesting shared pathophysiological mechanisms such as elastin fragmentation in both lung and arterial tissues.
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Arterial stiffness assessment may aid cardiovascular risk stratification in COPD; leaves open causal role of elastin changes and need for prospective trials.
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McAllister et al. (2007) studied this question.
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