Various Indices of Arterial Stiffness: Are They Closely Related or Distinctly Different?

Pulse
Hirofumi Tanaka

Abstract

Arterial stiffness is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. There are a number of techniques and devices that have been developed and utilized to capture the information pertaining to the elasticity of the blood vessel. Almost all the available indices of arterial stiffness are known to increase with advancing age and are elevated in the presence of hypertension and coronary heart disease. It is not known how closely these different measures of arterial stiffness are related to each other. Available evidence indicates that arterial stiffness indices that share a homogeneous methodology appear to demonstrate good correlations. However, there are no significant associations between some measures. These overall results may be surprising considering that all the indices are supposed to reflect the same property of the arterial wall (i.e., arterial elasticity). Interestingly, no or weak correlations between indices of vascular function are not confined only to arterial stiffness and can be extended to endothelial function and vascular reactivity measures.

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Dec 28, 2019·Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging·Simon FryerLee Stoner
Nov 16, 2018·Journal of Hypertension·Gabriel H ZieffLee Stoner
Apr 21, 2018·American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology·Stacey E PriestMaureen J MacDonald
Jan 16, 2021·American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology·Jennifer S WilliamsMaureen J MacDonald

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