ArticleHypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension2024
Cross-sectional and longitudinal evaluation of heart-to-brachium pulse wave velocity for cardiovascular disease risk.
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Abstract
Heart-brachium pulse wave velocity (hbPWV) is a promising measure of arterial stiffness including the proximal aorta. To characterize age-associated changes and the clinical utilities of hbPWV, we evaluated the impacts of age and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risks on hbPWV cross-sectionally (N = 7868) and longitudinally (N = 3710, followed by 9.1 ± 2.0 years). hbPWV were obtained using two validated equations for arterial path length (with and without considering age-related aortic elongations). Brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) was used as a comparative measure. Repeated-measures correlation (rmcorr) and regression analyses were used to characterize associations of PWVs with age and Framingham's general CVD risk score (FRS). In the cross-sectional study, hbPWVs derived by both equations showed stronger correlation with age (r = 0.746 ~ 0.796) and FRS (r = 0.714-0.749) than baPWV (r = 0.554 and r = 0.643). Furthermore, hbPWVs correlated with FRS even after controlling for age (r = 0.260 ~ 0.269, P < 0.0001). In the longitudinal study, hbPWVs demonstrated significantly higher rmcorr coefficient with age than baPWV (r
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