Prediction of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality with arterial stiffness: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Vlachopoulos, Charalambos; Aznaouridis, Konstantinos; Stefanadis, Christodoulos (Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2010)
Keywords: Age; Aorta - pathology; Aorta - physiopathology; Bias; Body mass index; Cardiology; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular Diseases - mortality; Cardiovascular Diseases - physiopathology; Confidence intervals; Diabetes; Drug therapy; Elasticity; Estimates; Heart attacks; Humans; Hypertension; Kidney diseases; Mortality; Population; Pressure transducers; Pulsatile Flow - physiology; Risk Assessment; Stroke; Studies; Vascular Resistance - physiology