Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in most developed countries. Among markers of CVD, arterial stiffness has proven to be an important parameter in the ...

Arterial stiffness is a novel cause of premature heart damage among adolescents, according to a new follow-up study. The study was conducted in collaboration between Texas Children's Hospital and ...

Arterial stiffness may be a novel risk factor for metabolic syndrome in teens, a paper published in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology concludes. The study was ...

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland, the University of Exeter, and the University of Bristol carried out the study using data from one of the world’s most extensive ongoing prospective ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 2, 2018) - In just four months, high-doses of vitamin D reduce arterial stiffness in young, overweight/obese, vitamin-deficient, but otherwise still healthy African-Americans, ...

Women aged around 42 years with elevated blood pressure (BP) or hypertension faced a substantially higher risk for increased arterial stiffness nearly three decades later — a pattern not seen in men ...

In the young population, arterial stiffness, an emerging risk factor for hypertension, indirectly raises blood pressure via an increase in insulin resistance but not via an increase in body fat, a new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Andrew O. Agbaje, MD, MPH, certified clinical researcher at the Institute of Public Health and Clinical ...

Arterial stiffness due to is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease but is very difficult to measure. A new method for measuring arterial stiffness has been developed. This simple, non-invasive ...

LONDON, UK — Although the drug widely known as LCZ696 (valsartan/sacubitril [Entresto, Novartis]) was approved recently in the US to treat patients with heart failure, it may also be beneficial in ...