Age dependence of brachial cuff-based ambulatory PWV in end-stage kidney disease patients undergoing long-term peritoneal dialysis.
Vasilios VaiosPanagiotis I GeorgianosGeorgia VaretaDimitrios DivanisEvangelia DounousiTheodoros EleftheriadisAikaterini PapagianniPantelis E ZebekakisVasillios LiakopoulosPublished in: Peritoneal dialysis international : journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (2021)
The present study shows that age together with simultaneously assessed oscillometric BP and heart rate are the major determinants of Mobil-O-Graph-derived PWV, explaining >90% of the total variation of this marker. This age dependence of oscillometric PWV limits the validity of this marker to detect the premature vascular ageing, a unique characteristic of vascular remodelling in ESKD.