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Review highlights the predictive value of arterial pulse pressure and aortic dimensions in elderly hypertension.
This review highlights the clinical relevance and determinants of arterial pulse pressure, particularly focusing on aortic dimensions in elderly hypertensive patients.
Pulse pressure's predictive value supports clinical monitoring; review extends determinant insights but leaves therapeutic targets unresolved.
Arterial pulse pressure (PP) is defined as the absolute difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Its relationship to other cardiovascular variables and its strong predictive value for clinical vascular events has resulted in PP becoming the focus of much research into the mechanisms that underlie its generation, as it is an attractive target for both non-drug and pharmacological therapies. The clinical relevance of PP is reviewed here, as are its determinants.
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Bertovic et al. (2008) conducted a review in Hypertension. Pulse pressure and aortic dimensions was evaluated. Arterial pulse pressure and its determinants, including aortic dimensions, are reviewed for their clinical relevance and predictive value in elderly hypertensive patients.
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