Vascular stiffness and endothelial dysfunction: Correlations at different levels of blood pressure

Blood Pressure

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-38

  Figueiredo, Valéria Nasser ^a   Yugar Toledo, Juan Carlos ^b   Martins, Luiz Cludio ^a   Martins, Leandro Boer ^a,d   De Faria, Ana Paula Cabral ^a   De Haro Moraes, Carolina ^a   Sierra, Cristina ^c   Coca, Antonio ^c   Moreno, Heitor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DE SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c Medical School   (Spain)

^d Cardiovascular and Metabolism Unit   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Flow mediated dilation; NO; Pulse wave velocity; Resistant hypertension; Vascular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DILATATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RESISTANT HYPERTENSION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 84856483461     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: 16511999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08037051.2011.617045     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. A, Jones D, Textor S, Goff DC, Murphy TP, Toto RD, et al. Resistant hypertension: Diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment. A scientifi c statement from the American Heart Association Professional Education Committee of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research. Circulation. 2008;117:e510-e526.
2. Hall WD. Resistant hypertension, secondary hypertension, and hypertensive crises. Cardiol Clin. 2002;20:281-219.
3. Pierdomenico SD, Lapenna D, Bucci A, Di Tommaso R, Di Mascio R, Manente BM, et al. Cardiovascular outcome in treated hypertensive patients with responder, masked, false resistant, and true resistant hypertension. Am J Hypertens. 2005;18:1422-1428. (Pubitemid 41566669)
4. Papadopoulos DP, Papademetriou V. Resistant hypertension: Diagnosis and management. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther. 2006;11:113-118. (Pubitemid 44449100)
5. Sowers JR, Whaley-Connell A, Epstein M. Narrative review: The emerging clinical implications of the role of aldosterone in the metabolic syndrome and resistant hypertension. Ann Intern Med. 2009;150:776-783.
6. Ubaid-Girioli S, Adriana de Souza L, Yugar-Toledo JC, Martins LC, Ferreira-Melo S, Coelho OR, et al. Aldosterone excess or escape: Treating resistant hypertension. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2009;11:245-252.
7. Pimenta E, Calhoun DA, Oparil S. Sleep apnea, aldosterone, and resistant hypertension. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 2009;51:371-380.
8. Landmesser U, Drexler H. Endothelial function and hypertension. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2007;22:316-320. (Pubitemid 46897283)
9. Perticone F, Ceravolo R, Pujia A, Ventura G, Iacopino S, Scozzafava A, et al. Prognostic signifi cance of endothelial dysfunction in hypertensive patients. Circulation. 2001; 104:191-196. (Pubitemid 32655837)
10. Yugar-Toledo JC, Tanus-Santos JE, Sabha M, Sousa MG, Cittadino M, T á cito LH, et al. Uncontrolled hypertension, uncompensated type II diabetes, and smoking have different patterns of vascular dysfunction. Chest. 2004;125:823-830. (Pubitemid 38367270)
11. Wilkinson IB, Franklin SS, Cockcroft JR. Nitric oxide and the regulation of large artery stiffness: From physiology to pharmacology. Hypertension. 2004;44:112-116. (Pubitemid 39014221)
12. Zieman SJ, Melenovsky V, Kass DA. Mechanisms, pathophysiology, and therapy of arterial stiffness. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2005;25:932-943. (Pubitemid 40627836)
13. McEniery CM, Wallace S, Mackenzie IS, McDonnell B, Yasmin, Newby DE, et al. Endothelial function is associated with pulse pressure, pulse wave velocity, and augmentation index in healthy humans. Hypertension. 2006;48:602-608. (Pubitemid 44843862)
14. Safar M, Chamiot-Clerc P, Dagher G, Renaud JF. Pulse pressure, endothelium function, and arterial stiffness in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Hypertension. 2001;38: 1416-1421. (Pubitemid 34033426)
15. Schmitt M, Avolio A, Qasem A, McEniery CM, Butlin M, Wilkinson IB, et al. Basal NO locally modulates human iliac artery function in vivo. Hypertension. 2005;46:227-231. (Pubitemid 40946519)
16. O' R ourke MF, Pauca A, Jiang XJ. Pulse wave analysis. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2001;51:507-522.
17. O' R ourke MF. Wave travel and refl ection in the arterial system. J Hypertens Suppl. 1999;17:S45-S47.
18. Laurent S, Cockcroft J, Van Bortel L, Boutouyrie P, Giannattasio C, Hayoz D, et al. Expert consensus document on arterial stiffness: Methodological issues and clinical applications. Eur Heart J. 2006;27:2588-2605. (Pubitemid 44627304)
19. O'Rourke MF, Staessen JA, Vlachopoulos C, Duprez D, Plante GE. Clinical applications of arterial stiffness; defi nitions and reference values. Am J Hypertens. 2002;15:426-44. (Pubitemid 34478483)
20. Roman MJ, Devereux RB, Kizer JR, Lee ET, Galloway JM, Ali T, et al. Central pressure more strongly relates to vascular disease and outcome than does brachial pressure: The Strong Heart Study. Hypertension. 2007;50:197-203. (Pubitemid 46986041)
21. Topouchian J, El Feghali R, Pannier B, Wang S, Zhao F, Smetana K, et al. Arterial stiffness and pharmacological interventions - The TRanscend arterial stiffNess Substudy (TRANS study). Vasc Health Risk Manag. 2007;3:381-387.
22. Protogerou A, Blacher J, Stergiou GS, Achimastos A, Safar ME. Blood pressure response under chronic antihypertensive drug therapy: The role of aortic stiffness in the REASON (Preterax in Regression of Arterial Stiffness in a Controlled Double-Blind) study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009; 53:445-451.
23. Celermajer DS, Sorensen KE, Gooch VM, Spiegelhalter DJ, Miller OI, Sullivan ID, et al. Non-invasive detection of endothelial dysfunction in children and adults at risk of atherosclerosis. Lancet. 1992;340:1111-1115.
24. Sorensen KE, Celermajer DS, Spiegelhalter DJ, Georgakopoulos D, Robinson J, Thomas O, et al. Non-invasive measurement of human endothelium dependent arterial responses: Accuracy and reproducibility. Br Heart J. 1995;74:247-253.
25. Chobanian AV, Bakris GL, Black HR, Cushman WC, Green LA, Izzo JL Jr, et al. Seventh report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. Hypertension. 2003;42:1206-1252. (Pubitemid 37553153)
26. Corretti MC, Anderson TJ, Benjamin EJ, Celermajer D, Charbonneau F, Creager MA, Deanfi eld J, et al. Guidelines for the ultrasound assessment of endothelial-dependent fl owmediated vasodilation of the brachial artery: A report of the International Brachial Artery Reactivity Task Force. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2002;39:257-265. (Pubitemid 34084631)
27. Asmar R, Benetos A, Topouchian J, Laurent P, Pannier B, Brisac AM, et al. Assessment of arterial distensibility by automatic pulse wave velocity measurement. Validation and clinical application studies. Hypertension. 1995;26:485-490.
28. Blacher J, Asmar R, Djane S, London GM, Safar ME. Aortic pulse wave velocity as a marker of cardiovascular risk in hypertensive patients. Hypertension. 1999;33:1111-1117. (Pubitemid 29230958)
29. Safar ME, Blacher J, Protogerou A, Achimastos A. Arterial stiffness and central hemodynamics in treated hypertensive subjects according to brachial blood pressure classifi cation. J Hypertens. 2008;26:130-137. (Pubitemid 350294858)
30. Duprez DA, Cohn JN. Arterial stiffness as a risk factor for coronary atherosclerosis. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2007;9:139-144. (Pubitemid 47376985)
31. Laurent S, Boutouyrie P. Recent advances in arterial stiffness and wave refl ection in human hypertension. Hypertension. 2007;49:1202-1206. (Pubitemid 46809353)
32. Ahlund C, Pettersson K, Lind L. Pulse wave analysis on fi ngertip arterial pressure: Effects of age, gender and stressors on refl ected waves and their relation to brachial and femoral artery blood fl ow. Clin Physiol Funct Imaging. 2008;28:86-95. (Pubitemid 351247313)
33. London GM, Marchais SJ, Guerin AP, Pannier B. Arterial stiffness: Pathophysiology and clinical impact. Clin Exp Hypertens. 2004;26:689-699. (Pubitemid 40129757)
34. O' R ourke MF. Clinical assessment of arterial stiffness. Am J Hypertens. 2007;20:839.
35. Williams B. The aorta and resistant hypertension. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009;53:452-454.
36. Martins LC, Figueiredo VN, Quinaglia T, Boer-Martins L, Yugar-Toledo JC, Martin JF, et al. Characteristics of resistant hypertension: Ageing, body mass index, hyperaldosteronism, cardiac hypertrophy and vascular stiffness. J Hum Hypertens. 2011;25:532-538.
37. Mackenzie IS, McEniery CM, Dhakam Z, Brown MJ, Cockcroft JR, Wilkinson IB. Comparison of the effects of antihypertensive agents on central blood pressure and arterial stiffness in isolated systolic hypertension. Hypertension. 2009;54:409-413.
38. Thorin E, Thorin-Trescases N. Vascular endothelial ageing, heartbeat after heartbeat. Cardiovasc Res. 2009;84:24-32.
39. Wilkinson IB, McEniery CM. Arterial stiffness, endothelial function and novel pharmacological approaches. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 2004;31:795-799. (Pubitemid 39556856)
40. Safar ME, Levy BI, Struijker-Boudier H. Current perspectives on arterial stiffness and pulse pressure in hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Circulation. 2003;107:2864-2869. (Pubitemid 36705999)
41. Protogerou AD, Papaioannou TG, Lekakis JP, Blacher J, Safar ME. The effect of antihypertensive drugs on central blood pressure beyond peripheral blood pressure. Part I: (Patho)- physiology, rationale and perspective on pulse pressure amplify cation. Curr Pharm Des. 2009;15:267-271.
42. Protogerou AD, Stergiou GS, Vlachopoulos C, Blacher J, Achimastos A. The effect of antihypertensive drugs on central blood pressure beyond peripheral blood pressure. Part II: Evidence for specifi c class-effects of antihypertensive drugs on pressure amplifi cation. Curr Pharm Des. 2009;15: 272-289.
43. Yasmin, O'Shaughnessy KM. Genetics of arterial structure and function: Towards new biomarkers for aortic stiffness? Clin Sci (Lond). 2008;114:661-677.
44. Jatoi NA, Jerrard-Dunne P, Feely J, Mahmud A. Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on arterial stiffness and aortic wave reflection in hypertension. Hypertension. 2007;49:981-985. (Pubitemid 351664328)
45. Williams B, Lacy PS, Thom SM, Cruickshank K, Stanton A, Collier D, et al. Differential impact of blood pressure-lowering drugs on central aortic pressure and clinical outcomes: Principal results of the Conduit Artery Function Evaluation (CAFE) study. Circulation. 2006;113:1213-1225.
46. Boos CJ, Lane DA, Karpha M, Beevers DG, Haynes R, Lip GY. Circulating endothelial cells, arterial stiffness, and cardiovascular risk stratifi cation in hypertension. Chest. 2007; 132:1540-1547. (Pubitemid 350156011)