Population
1,284 community-dwelling adults with hypertension from the Beijing Vascular Disease Patients Evaluation…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
4 years
Authors
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Arterial stiffness may predict carotid atherosclerosis progression in hypertension; extends observational links but leaves causal implications open.
In older adults with hypertension, subclinical atherosclerosis progresses over 4 years, with baseline arterial stiffness (carotid-femoral PWV) predicting significant increases in carotid intima-media thickness.
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