Magnus Bäck, Jirar Topouchian, Carlos Labat, Sylvie Gautier, Jacques Blacher, Marcin Cwynar, Alejandro de la Sierra, Denes Pall, Kevin Duarte, Francesco Fantin, Katalin Farkas, Luis Garcia-Ortiz, Zoya Hakobyan, Piotr Jankowski, Ana Jelakovic, Marina Kotsani, Alexandra Konradi, Oksana Mikhailova, Iveta Mintale, Oscar Plunde, Rafael Ramos, Anatoly Rogoza, Yuriy Sirenko, Nebojsa Tasic, Iurii Rudyk, Saule Urazalina, Peter Wohlfahrt, Parounak Zelveian, Roland Asmar, Athanase Benetos
BACKGROUND: The cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) measure of arterial stiffness is associated with prevalent cardiovascular risk factors, while its predictive value for cardiovascular events remains to be established. The aim was to determine associations of CAVI with cardiovascular morbimortality (primary outcome) and all-cause mortality (secondary outcome), and to establish the determinants of CAVI progression. METHODS: TRIPLE-A-Stiffness, an international multicentre prospective longitudinal study, enrolled >2000 subjects ≥40 years old at 32 centres from 18 European countries...
April 9, 2024: EBioMedicine