Key result
Editorial provides no clinical data regarding the ambulatory arterial stiffness index.
AASI interpretation requires nocturnal BP and variability adjustment; leaves open its validity as a stiffness marker pending refined methods.
aUnit of Internal Medicine, Angiology and Arteriosclerosis, University of Perugia, Perugia bDepartment of Clinical Medicine and Prevention, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy cDepartment of Cardiology, San Luca Hospital, IRCCS, Italian Auxological Institute, Milan, Italy Correspondence to Professor Giuseppe Schillaci, MD, Unit of Internal Medicine, Angiology and Arteriosclerosis, University of Perugia Medical School, Hospital “Santa Maria della Misericordia”, Piazzale Menghini, 1 IT-06129 Perugia, Italy Tel: +39 075 5784016; fax: +39 075 5784022; e-mail: [email protected]
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Schillaci et al. (2008) reported an editorial. Ambulatory arterial stiffness index was evaluated. No clinical data or abstract text was provided to summarize findings regarding the ambulatory arterial stiffness index.
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