Ambulatory aortic stiffness, independently of static, associates with narrower retinal arteriolar calibers in hypertensives: The SAFAR study

Background: Arterial stiffness measured under static conditions reclassifies significantly cardiovascular (CV) risk and associates with organ damage, including narrower retinal arterioles. However, arterial stiffness exhibits diurnal variation, thus single static stiffness recordings do not correspond to the “usual” 24 hr, awake and asleep average arterial stiffness. We aimed to test the hypothesis that ambulatory 24 hr, awake and asleep aortic (a) pulse wave velocity (PWV) associate with retinal vessel calibers, independently of confounders and of static arterial stiffness, in hypertensive individuals free from diabetes and CV disease.

Source: Artery Research - November 24, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Evaggelia K. Aissopou, Antonios A. Argyris, Efthimia G. Nasothimiou, George D. Konstantonis, Konstantinos Tampakis, Nikolaos Tentolouris, Miltiadis Papathanassiou, Panagiotis G. Theodossiadis, Theodoros G. Papaioannou, Coen D.A. Stehouwer, Petros P. Sfika Source Type: research