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Arterial Stiffness Index Works In Elderly Hypertensive Patients
A DGReview of :"Arterial stiffness index: A new evaluation for arterial stiffness in elderly patients with essential hypertension"
Geriatrics and Gerontology International
02/14/2003
By Robert Short
Arterial stiffness in hypertensive patients, including the elderly, might be evaluated using the 'arterial stiffness index,' measured by computerized oscillometry at the upper arm.
The authors of this study felt that the index may be a convenient way of measuring pulse-wave velocity and considered it suitable for measuring arterial stiffness in elderly patients. They evaluated arterial stiffness index and compared it with other methods of evaluating arterial stiffness in patients with essential hypertension.
Dr Masaharu Kaibe and colleagues of the Department of Geriatric Medicine, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan, studied 42 patients, 26 of whom were over 60 years of age.
The researchers found that arterial stiffness index was positively correlated with pulse-wave velocity between the carotid-femoral artery, the heart-carotid artery and right brachial-tibial artery. In elderly patients, arterial stiffness index was also correlated with carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity. It was not, however, correlated with a vasodilator response to reactive hyperaemia.
Geriatrics and Gerontology International 2002;2:4:199-205.
"Arterial stiffness index: A new evaluation for arterial stiffness in elderly patients with essential hypertension"
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