Bart Spronck, Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, Alberto P Avolio, Pierre Boutouyrie, Andrea Guala, Ana Jerončić, Stéphane Laurent, Eduardo C D Barbosa, Johannes Baulmann, Chen-Huan Chen, Julio A Chirinos, Stella S Daskalopoulou, Alun D Hughes, Azra Mahmud, Christopher C Mayer, Jeong Bae Park, Gary L Pierce, Aletta E Schutte, Elaine M Urbina, Ian B Wilkinson, Patrick Segers, James E Sharman, Isabella Tan, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Thomas Weber, Elisabetta Bianchini, Rosa Maria Bruno
BACKGROUND: Arterial stiffness, as measured by arterial pulse wave velocity (PWV), is an established biomarker for cardiovascular risk and target-organ damage in individuals with hypertension. With the emergence of new devices for assessing PWV, it has become evident that some of these devices yield results that display significant discrepancies compared with previous devices. This discrepancy underscores the importance of comprehensive validation procedures and the need for international recommendations...
January 2024: Hypertension