Aortic pulse wave velocity is an independent predictor of cardiovascular mortality in hypertensive populations, regardless of end-stage renal disease status.
Is aortic pulse wave velocity an independent predictor of cardiovascular mortality in hypertensive subjects?
Aortic pulse wave velocity serves as an independent predictor of cardiovascular mortality, offering a noninvasive tool for cardiovascular risk evaluation.
Aortic pulse wave velocity, a classic index of aortic stiffness, may be easily measured in humans using noninvasive ultrasound methods of high reproducibility. Recent epidemiologic studies have shown that, independently of confounding factors such as age, blood pressure and cardiac mass, aortic pulse wave velocity is a predictor of cardiovascular mortality in populations of hypertensive subjects, whether they have end-stage renal disease or not. Since aortic pulse wave velocity is dominantly influenced by age, this finding may be of major importance for the evaluation of cardiovascular risk in geriatric populations.
Safar et al. (Sun,) conducted a review in Hypertension. Aortic pulse wave velocity was evaluated on Cardiovascular mortality. Aortic pulse wave velocity is an independent predictor of cardiovascular mortality in hypertensive populations, regardless of end-stage renal disease status.
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