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Prognostic Impact of Aortic Stiffness in Patients With Resistant Hypertension.
Hypertension
March 2019
From the Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho (C.R.L.C., G.F.S.), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The prognostic importance of aortic stiffness in patients with resistant hypertension has never been investigated. We aimed to evaluate it for the occurrence of adverse cardiovascular outcomes and mortality in a prospective cohort of resistant hypertensive patients. Aortic stiffness was assessed by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV) at baseline in 891 resistant hypertensive patients who were followed-up for a median of 7.
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