Carotid-Femoral Pulse Transit Time Variability Predicted Mortality and Improved Risk Stratification in the Elderly

Hypertension. 2021 Nov;78(5):1287-1295. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.17891. Epub 2021 Sep 27.

De-Wei An¹, Iram Faqir Muhammad^{2

3}, Ming-Xuan Li¹, Yan Borné^{2

3}, Chang-Sheng Sheng¹, Margaretha Persson^{2

3}, Ren-Zhi Cai⁴, Qian-Hui Guo¹, Ji-Guang Wang¹, Gunnar Engström^{2

3}, Yan Li¹, Peter M Nilsson^{2

3}

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Hypertension, National Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, The Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, National Research Centre for Translational Medicine, Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, China (D.-W.A., M.-X.L., C.-S.S., Q.-H.G., J.-G.W., Y.L.).
² Department of Clinical Science, Lund University, Sweden (I.F.M., Y.B., M.P., G.E., P.M.N.).
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden (I.F.M., Y.B., M.P., G.E., P.M.N.).
⁴ Division of Health Information, Department of Vital Statistics, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China (R.-Z.C.).

Abstract

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Keywords: aging; blood pressure; mortality; pulse wave analysis; risk.