Mortality and Cardiovascular End Points In Relation to the Aortic Pulse Wave Components: An Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis.
Gavin R NortonDe-Wei AnLucas S AparicioYu-Ling YuFang-Fei WeiTeemu J NiiranenChen LiuKatarzyna Stolarz-SkrzypekWiktoria WojciechowskaAntti M JulaMarek W RajzerDries S MartensPeter VerhammeYan LiKalina Kawecka-JaszczTim S NawrotJan A StaessenAngela J Woodiwissnull nullPublished in: Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) (2024)
showing significant improvement in risk prediction. Pending further confirmation, the ratio of time to forward and backward pressure peak may be useful to evaluate increased afterload and signify increased cardiovascular risk.