Cross-Sectional (n=129)
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Arterial wall rigidity may play a complex role in the pathogenesis of hypertension and arrhythmias, potentially acting as a protective mechanism in specific contexts.
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Higher PWV in occupational COPD and vibration disease may inform risk stratification; leaves open its role in hypertension pathogenesis.
A research goal was to explain relations among the arterial wall rigidity, hypertension, arrhythmias, professional pathologies. It has been detected that they were relative. That is why combined antihypertensive therapy including salidiuretics can have an antiarrhythmic effect. Rigidity of elastic arteries does not necessarily increase with aging in hypertension patients. In some professional pathologies, decreased vessel elasticity can be a sanogenetic reaction protecting against hypertension. But this protection does not work if heart rate is increased. The features of human vessel elasticity because of human evolution peculiarities can be explained by adaptation to the environment and to the changes of the arterial wall and blood plasma chemical composition.
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Иванова et al. (2014) conducted a cross-sectional in Arterial hypertension, arrhythmias, and occupational diseases (n=129). Occupational diseases and essential hypertension vs. Healthy controls was evaluated on Arterial stiffness measured by Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV).
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