ArticleHypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension2017
Increased pulse wave velocity in patients with acute lacunar infarction doubled the risk of future ischemic stroke.
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- Advanced vascular aging and outcomes after acute ischemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of human hypertension · 2024Pooled it
- Brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity and prognosis in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2021Pooled it
- Prediction of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality using central hemodynamic indices among elderly people: systematic review and meta-analysis.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicinaPooled it
- Association Between Pulse Wave Velocity and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Scoping Review.Cureus · 2025Review
- Longitudinal dynamics of pulse wave velocity in the days after acute ischaemic stroke: prospective cohort study.BMJ open · 2025Observational
- Early vascular aging ambulatory score in acute ischemic stroke.npj aging · 2025Article
- High pulse wave velocity is associated with enlarged perivascular spaces in dementia with Lewy bodies.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Association between Ankle-Brachial Index/Pulse Wave Velocity and Cerebral Large and Small Vessel Diseases in Stroke Patients.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Estimated pulse wave velocity is associated with all-cause and cardio-cerebrovascular disease mortality in stroke population: Results from NHANES (2003-2014).Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Effect of endoprostheses on pulse wave velocity and its long-term outcomes after thoracic endovascular aortic repair.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2020Article
- Association of Cerebral Arterial Stiffness with Initial Severity in Acute Ischemic Stroke.Journal of atherosclerosis and thrombosis · 2019Observational
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- Arterial path length estimation for heart-to-brachium pulse wave velocity.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2018Article
- Brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity, cardio-ankle vascular index, and prognosis.Vascular health and risk management · 2018Review
- Higher aortic-brachial pulse wave velocity ratio is associated with large artery atherosclerosis-related ischemic stroke.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine whether pulse wave velocity (PWV), a marker of vascular endothelial impairment and arteriosclerosis, predicts future ischemic stroke in patients who developed acute lacunar infarction. Patients with a first-ever ischemic stroke due to acute lacunar infarction were enrolled in this study. An oscillometric device (Form PWV/ABI; Omron Colin, Tokyo, Japan) was used to measure brachial-ankle PWV 1 week after stroke onset. Patients were followed for at least 5 years. The main end point of the study was recurrent ischemic stroke. Event-free survival was analyzed using Kaplan-Meier plots and log-rank tests. The risk of recurrent ischemic stroke was estimated using the Cox proportional-hazards model. Of the 156 patients (61% male, mean age: 69.2±11.3 years) assessed in this study, 29 developed recurrent ischemic stroke. The median brachial-ankle PWV value was 20.4 m s
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