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

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

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