Aortic stiffness for cardiovascular risk prediction: just measure it, just do it!

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¹ Peripheral Vessels Unit, 1st Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: cvlachop@otenet.gr.
² Peripheral Vessels Unit, 1st Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece.

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Charalambos Vlachopoulos et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014.

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. 2014 Feb 25;63(7):647-649.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.10.040. Epub 2013 Nov 13.

¹ Peripheral Vessels Unit, 1st Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: cvlachop@otenet.gr.
² Peripheral Vessels Unit, 1st Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece.

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Keywords: aortic stiffness; meta-analysis; pulse wave velocity; risk prediction.

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