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HYPERTENSION RESEARCH
卷 39, 期 10, 页码 723-729出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2016.64
关键词
arterial stiffness gradient; augmentation index; central pulse pressure; pulse wave velocity; wave reflection
资金
- Cambridge Commonwealth Trust
- Cambridge Overseas Trust
- British Heart Foundation Senior Clinical Fellowship
- British Heart Foundation
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
- British Heart Foundation [FS/07/001/21990, FS/12/8/29377] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [NF-SI-0515-10093] Funding Source: researchfish
In individuals with compliant aortas, peripheral muscular artery stiffness exceeds central elastic artery stiffness. With aging, central stiffness increases with little change in peripheral stiffness, resulting in a reversal of the normal stiffness gradient. This reversal may reduce the wave reflection amplitude due to the movement of the major 'effective' reflection site further from the heart. To test this phenomenon, we investigated the relationship among arterial stiffness gradients (normal and reversed), wave reflection amplitude and reflection site distance. Subjects aged >= 50 years were recruited from the Anglo-Cardiff Collaborative Trial. Central stiffness was assessed by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV). In Study 1, peripheral PWV was also measured in the arm (carotid-radial pulse wave velocity) and, in Study 2, in the leg (femoral-dorsalis pedis). Reflection site distance was calculated from cfPWV and the reflected wave Tr. Subjects were dichotomized into those with a normal stiffness gradient (peripheral >central PWV) or a reversed gradient (peripheral
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