Functional versus morphological assessment of vascular age in patients with coronary heart disease

Abstract Communicating cardiovascular risk based on individual vascular age (VA) is a well acknowledged concept in patient education and disease prevention. VA may be derived functionally, e.g. by measurement of pulse wave velocity (PWV), or morphologically, e.g. by assessment of carotid intima-medi...

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Main Authors: Tino Yurdadogan, Carolin Malsch, Kornelia Kotseva, David Wood, Rainer Leyh, Georg Ertl, Wolfgang Karmann, Lara Müller-Scholden, Caroline Morbach, Margret Breunig, Martin Wagner, Götz Gelbrich, Michiel L. Bots, Peter U. Heuschmann, Stefan Störk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96998-x