Associations between aortic pulse wave velocity and aortic and carotid vessel wall thickness in patients with hypertension: assessment with MRI
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Introduction Hypertension puts continuous strain on arteries, resulting in arterial wall alterations such as vessel wall thickening and vessel wall stiffening. Due to the availability of suitable acoustic windows, vessel wall thickness (VWT) is studied traditionally by ultrasound from intima-media thickness in the carotid arteries. Arterial vessel wall stiffness can be expressed by Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV), the propagation speed of the systolic wave front through the aorta. For studying direct associations between PWV and VWT, it is desired to sample VWT in the aorta.
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