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- Title
Vascular stiffness and endothelial dysfunction: Correlations at different levels of blood pressure.
- Authors
Figueiredo, Valéria Nasser; Yugar-Toledo, Juan Carlos; Martins, Luiz Cláudio; Martins, Leandro Boer; de Faria, Ana Paula Cabral; de Haro Moraes, Carolina; Sierra, Cristina; Coca, Antonio; Moreno, Heitor
- Abstract
Resistant hypertensive (RHTN) patients have endothelial dysfunction and aldosterone excess, which contribute to the development of resistance to antihypertensive treatment and cardiovascular complications. Biophysical forces within the arterial wall provide functional regulation of arterial stiffness. Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) and flow-mediated brachial artery dilation (FMD) can be used to evaluate vascular stiffness and endothelial function. Although both techniques have been used in several studies in hypertensive patients, it is unknown whether endothelial dysfunction is also associated with vascular stiffness in RHTN patients.
- Publication
Blood pressure, 2012, Vol 21, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
1651-1999
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3109/08037051.2011.617045