Prediction of Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality With Arterial Stiffness

The purpose of this study was to calculate robust quantitative estimates of the predictive value of aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) for future cardiovascular (CV) events and all-cause mortality by meta-analyses of longitudinal studies.Arterial stiffness is increasingly recognized as a surrogate end point for CV disease.We performed a meta-analysis of 17 longitudinal studies that evaluated aortic PWV and followed up 15,877 subjects for a mean of...