Carotid Artery Stiffness Mechanisms Associated With Cardiovascular Disease Events and Incident Hypertension: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
Ryan J PewowarukClaudia E KorcarzYacob TedlaGregory BurkePhilip GreenlandColin WuAdam D GepnerPublished in: Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) (2022)
These results provide valuable new insights into mechanisms underlying the association between arterial stiffness and CVD. Load-dependent stiffness was significantly associated with CVD events but structural stiffness was not.