Characteristics of healthy vascular ageing in pooled population-based cohort studies: the global Metabolic syndrome and Artery REsearch Consortium

• Author(s): Nilsson, Peter M. ; Laurent, Stephane ; Cunha, Pedro Miguel Guimarães Marques ; Olsen, Michael H. ; Rietzschel, Ernst ; Franco, Oscar H. ; Ryliškytė, Ligita ; Strazhesko, Irina ; Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ; Chen, Chen-Huan ; Boutouyrie, Pierre ; Cucca, Francesco ; Lakatta, Edward G. ; Scuteri, Angelo
• Date: 2018
• Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/57909
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): age; arterial; blood pressure; cohort; epidemiology; health; metabolic syndrome; risk factor
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Universidade do Minho; Metabolic syndrome, Arteries REsearch (MARE) Consortium

Description

Arterial ageing is characterized by increasing arterial stiffness as measured by pulse wave velocity (PWV). This process is enhanced in participants with early vascular ageing (EVA), but slowed in participants with healthy vascular ageing (HVA). We aimed to describe characteristics of EVA and HVA in a transcontinental study including 11 cohorts.