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