Impact of central obesity on the estimation of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1209-1217

  Canepa, Marco ^a,b   AlGhatrif, Majd ^a,c   Pestelli, Gabriele ^b   Kankaria, Rohan ^a   Makrogiannis, Sokratis ^a   Strait, James B ^a   Brunelli, Claudio ^b   Lakatta, Edward G ^a   Ferrucci, Luigi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Blood pressure; Hypertension; Obesity; Pulse wave velocity; Travel distance; Visceral fat; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CAROTID FEMORAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; PULSE WAVE; SAGITTAL ABDOMINAL DIAMETER; SEX DIFFERENCE; STERNUM; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL BIAS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSITY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALTIMORE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BODY SURFACE AREA; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84901819620     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: 19417225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpu038     Document Type: Article

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