Derivation of an Outcome-Driven Threshold for Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity: An Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis.
De-Wei AnTine Willum HansenLucas S AparicioBabangida ChoriQi-Fang HuangFang-Fei WeiYi-Bang ChengYu-Ling YuChang-Sheng ShengNatasza Gilis-MalinowskaJosé BoggiaWiktoria WojciechowskaTeemu J NiiranenValérie TikhonoffEdoardo CasigliaAlistair S HallKatarzyna Stolarz-SkrzypekKalina Kawecka-JaszczAntti M JulaWen-Yi YangAngela J WoodiwissJan FilipovskýJi-Gwang WangMarek W RajzerPeter VerhammeTim S NawrotJan A StaessenYan Linull nullPublished in: Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) (2023)
PWV integrates multiple risk factors into a single variable and might replace a large panel of traditional risk factors. Exceeding the outcome-driven PWV threshold should motivate clinicians to stringent management of risk factors, in particular hypertension, which over a person's lifetime causes stiffening of the elastic arteries as waypoint to CVE and death.