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To examine how disruptions in the transition between pulsatile macrocirculation and steady microcirculation drive elevated pulse pressure transmission and cause cardiac organ damage.

March 17, 2007AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Disturbance of macro- and microcirculation: relations with pulse pressure and cardiac organ damage

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To examine how disruptions in the transition between pulsatile macrocirculation and steady microcirculation drive elevated pulse pressure transmission and cause cardiac organ damage.
Reviewed hemodynamic determinants of pressure wave travel, damping, reflections, and impedance mismatch between conduit arteries and arteriolar networks.
Evaluated mechanotransduction pathways, extracellular matrix remodeling, and clinical risk factors that exacerbate arterial wall stiffness.
Arterial stiffening from calcification, altered collagen cross-linking, and matrix modifications blunts protective autoregulation, allowing harmful pulsatile pressure to penetrate microvascular beds.
Cyclic hemodynamic stress selectively triggers free radical generation and oxidative stress, whereas steady mechanical stress acts through focal adhesion kinase pathways.
Synergistic interactions between advanced age, systolic hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and high-sodium intake accelerate microvascular damage, explaining elevated mortality linked to high pulse pressure.

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Extends mechanistic insights into stiffness as predictor in elderly hypertension; leaves open whether targeting it alters outcomes.

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Safar et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a706b522163a0a01bc4a300 https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00063.2007

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