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SUBMITTER: Duprez DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3202150 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Duprez Daniel A DA Jacobs David R DR Lutsey Pamela L PL Bluemke David A DA Brumback Lyndia C LC Polak Joseph F JF Peralta Carmen A CA Greenland Philip P Kronmal Richard A RA
American journal of epidemiology 20110627 5
Functional biomarkers like large artery elasticity (LAE) and small artery elasticity (SAE) may predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) events beyond blood pressure. The authors examined the prognostic value of LAE and SAE for clinical CVD events among 6,235 Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis participants who were initially aged 45-84 years and without symptomatic CVD. LAE and SAE were derived from diastolic pulse contour analysis. During a median 5.8 years of follow-up between 2000 and 2008, 454 ...[more]