We revue the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in the elderly, their relationship to arterial stiffness. The measurement of arterial stiffness is of considerable increasing interest in this early 21 century. This paper is focusing on modeling, in different measurement methods. Several measurement techniques are presented. A review of the bibliography that explain the link between cardiovas...

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is associated with systemic inflammation and arterial stiffness during the acute stage. It has not been reported if arterial stiffness remains after recovery. The aim of this study was to determine the arterial stiffness during acute stage and 6 months after recovery from ARF. Arterial stiffness was assessed by carotid femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) in 23 ARF pati...

Arterial walls stiffen with age. The most consistent and well-reported changes are luminal enlargement with wall thickening and a reduction of elastic properties at the level of large elastic arteries. Longstanding arterial pulsation in the central artery causes elastin fiber fatigue and fracture. Increased vascular calcification and endothelial dysfunction are also characteristic of arterial a...

Increased arterial stiffness and wave reflection have been reported in heart failure with normal ejection fraction (HFNEF) and in asymptomatic left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction, a precursor of HFNEF. It is unclear whether women, who have higher frequency of HFNEF, are more vulnerable than men to the deleterious effects of arterial stiffness on LV diastolic function. We investigated, i...

Increased arterial stiffness and wave reflection have been reported in heart failure with normal ejection fraction (HFNEF) and in asymptomatic left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction, a precursor of HFNEF. It is unclear whether women, who have higher frequency of HFNEF, are more vulnerable than men to the deleterious effects of arterial stiffness on LV diastolic function. We investigated, i...

Arterial Stiffness and Hypertension Print ISSN: 0194-911X. Online ISSN: 1524-4563 Copyright © 2014 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Hypertension doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.114.00921 2014;64:13-18; originally published online April 21, 2014; Hypertension. http://hyper.ahajournals.org/c...

Magnesium and Arterial Stiffness To The Editor: We read with interest the paper by S. Laurent et al1 dealing with structural and genetic bases of arterial stiffness. The authors reviewed data concerning the heritability of arterial stiffness and propose an integrated view of the structural and genetic determinants of arterial stiffness based on a candidate gene approach and recent studies on ge...

OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA (OSA) APPEARS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT RISK FACTOR FOR DIURNAL SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION,1-3 although the biologic markers for this association have not been well worked out. Acute systemic blood pressure (BP) perturbations have been well described in association with obstructive events in patients with OSA,4-8 but arterial vasomotor activity, which may influence BP activity in ...

Arterial stiffness is an independent and powerful marker of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Pharmacological studies have shown that it is feasible to improve arterial stiffness or to slow its progression with a number of lifestyle modifications or pharmacological agents including antihypertensive, statins, nitrates, and others. Therapeutic improvement of arterial...

BACKGROUND Increased arterial stiffness predicts morbidity and mortality, independently of other cardiovascular risk factors, and glycemic control impairments are related to higher vascular stiffness. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between HbA1c levels and increased arterial stiffness in a Brazilian rural population. METHODS For this study were selected 1675 individuals...