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Review summarizes methods to estimate arterial and ventricular stiffness in physiological aging and hypertension.
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Arterial stiffness assessment may aid early risk stratification in hypertension; leaves open its routine adoption pending prospective outcome trials.
This review highlights the importance of assessing arterial and ventricular stiffness and their coupling to understand cardiovascular changes in aging and hypertension.
Faconti et al. (2015) conducted a review in Aging and Hypertension. Methods to estimate arterial and ventricular stiffness was evaluated. This review summarizes the main methods and indices used to estimate arterial and ventricular stiffness, focusing on their alteration in physiological aging and arterial hypertension.