Diabetes Week
Welcome to NewsRx!
Learn more about a six-week, no-risk free trial of Diabetes Week
We're a pay-per-view site for premium content. If you'd like to purchase this article, it's only $3.00.
Angiology
Artery stiffness may be predicted by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity and carotid stiffness
April 10th, 2006
Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity and carotid stiffness provided similar information on the impact of aging on large artery stiffness in normal subjects. "Several studies have shown that aortic stiffness was an independent predictor for cardiovascular events. However, data are less consistent concerning carotid stiffness," scientists in France report. A. Paini and colleagues at the University Paris-Descartes assessed "determinants of the discrepancies between aortic and carotid stiffness in different populations with contrasting cardiovascular risk factors: 94 healthy normotensives (NT), 243 nondiabetic hypertensives (HT), and 126 patients with...
Source: Diabetes Week (2006-04-10)
|
