3.4 A CLINICAL SCORE TO PREDICT ELEVATED ARTERIAL STIFFNESS: DERIVATION AND VALIDATION IN 3,943 HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS

3.4 A CLINICAL SCORE TO PREDICT ELEVATED ARTERIAL STIFFNESS: DERIVATION AND VALIDATION IN 3,943 HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Aortic stiffness assessed by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) is an important predictor to gauge the overall risk of hypertensive patients; nonetheless, it is underutilized in everyday practice. We derived a simple scoring system based on clinical variables th...

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Main Authors: Panagiotis Xaplanteris, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Athanasios Protogerou, Konstantinos Aznaouridis, Dimitris Terentes-Printzios, Antonis Argyris, Nikolaos Tentolouris, Petros Sfikakis, Dimitris Tousoulis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:Artery Research
Online Access:https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125930004/view

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