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.

CONCLUSION: 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.
PMID: 30141974 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical and Experimental Hypertension - August 24, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Sumbul HE, Koc AS, Demirtas D Tags: Clin Exp Hypertens Source Type: research