Central blood pressure: a powerful predictor of the development of hypertension

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Central blood pressure: a powerful predictor of the development of hypertension

Por: Hirofumi Tomiyama, Michael F O’rourke, Hideki Hashimoto, Chisa Matsumoto, Mari Odaira, Masanobu Yoshida, Kazuki Shiina, Mikio Nagata y Akira Yamashina. Hypertension Research (2013) 36, 19–24.

In middle-aged Japanese men without hypertension, SP2 may be a more powerful predictor of the development of hypertension than the assessment of stiffness in large to middle-sized arteries, independent of the conventional risk factors for the development of hypertension. Thus, functional abnormalities in the systemic arterial tree may have some roles in the increased risk of hypertension, even in the early stage of cardiovascular disease. [publicado: 07 de enero de 2013].