High cardiovascular risk in mixed connective tissue disease: evaluation of macrovascular involvement and its predictors by aortic pulse wave velocity.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with MCTD have significantly higher aortic stiffness and thus CV risk in comparison to controls. Except for the disease itself, age and blood pressure were the main predictors of cfPWV. PMID: 30943141 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Tags: Clin Exp Rheumatol Source Type: research