Increased carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity and common carotid artery intima-media thickness obtained to assess target organ damage in hypertensive patients are closely related.

Hilmi Erdem Sumbul Ayşe Selcan Koç Derya Demirtas

Published in: Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993) (2018)

There is a close relationship between CC-IMT and CF-PWV increase in HT. It was thought that it would still be more useful to look at the increase of CC-IMT compared to other vascular regions for screening asymptomatic organ damage.

Keyphrases

hypertensive patients
blood pressure
oxidative stress
cystic fibrosis
cardiovascular risk factors
cardiovascular disease
type diabetes