Prediction of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality with arterial stiffness: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Published in: Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 55; no. 13; p. 1318
• Main Authors: Vlachopoulos, Charalambos, Aznaouridis, Konstantinos, Stefanadis, Christodoulos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Limited 30.03.2010
• Subjects: 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

The purpose of this study was to calculate robust quantitative estimates of the predictive value of aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) for future cardiovascular (CV) events and all-cause mortality by meta-analyses of longitudinal studies. Arterial stiffness is increasingly recognized as a surrogate en...