Arterial stiffness in muscular arteries is elevated early in young Africans and appears more pressure-related, whereas in Caucasians it is more age-related.
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May support ethnicity-informed vascular assessment in hypertension; leaves open prospective validation of ancestry-specific risk.
Schutte et al. (2011) studied this question.
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