Arterial stiffness and cardiovascular risk in hypertension

P Boutouyrie, P Chowienczyk, JD Humphrey… - Circulation …, 2021‏ - ahajournals.org
Arterial stiffness, a leading marker of risk in hypertension, can be measured at material or
structural levels, with the latter combining effects of the geometry and composition of the …

Vascular smooth muscle cells and arterial stiffening: relevance in development, aging, and disease

P Lacolley, V Regnault, P Segers… - Physiological …, 2017‏ - journals.physiology.org
The cushioning function of large arteries encompasses distension during systole and recoil
during diastole which transforms pulsatile flow into a steady flow in the microcirculation …

Oxidative stress, inflammation, and vascular aging in hypertension

TJ Guzik, RM Touyz - Hypertension, 2017‏ - ahajournals.org
Guzik and Touyz Oxidation and Inflammation in Vascular Aging 661 and endothelium. 22
Perivascular fibrosis is greatly dependent on immune cells because it is prevented in …

Sex differences in mechanisms of arterial stiffness

JJ DuPont, RM Kenney, AR Patel… - British journal of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Arterial stiffness progressively increases with aging and is an independent predictor of
cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Evidence supports that there are sex differences in the …

Arterial stiffness as a risk factor for clinical hypertension

ME Safar - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2018‏ - nature.com
In patients with uncomplicated essential hypertension, cardiac output remains within normal
ranges and intravascular volume is normal or low, assuming the presence of a sufficient …

The role of vascular smooth muscle cells in arterial remodeling: focus on calcification-related processes

A Jaminon, K Reesink, A Kroon… - International journal of …, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Arterial remodeling refers to the structural and functional changes of the vessel wall that
occur in response to disease, injury, or aging. Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) play a …

Vascular smooth muscle remodeling in conductive and resistance arteries in hypertension

IAM Brown, L Diederich, ME Good… - … , and vascular biology, 2018‏ - ahajournals.org
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death worldwide and accounts for> 17.3
million deaths per year, with an estimated increase in incidence to 23.6 million by 2030 …

Vascular stiffness in aging and disease

SF Vatner, J Zhang, C Vyzas, K Mishra… - Frontiers in …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
The goal of this review is to provide further understanding of increased vascular stiffness
with aging, and how it contributes to the adverse effects of major human diseases …

Smooth muscle cell and arterial aging: basic and clinical aspects

P Lacolley, V Regnault, AP Avolio - Cardiovascular research, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Arterial aging engages a plethora of key signalling pathways that act in concert to induce
vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) phenotypic changes leading to vascular degeneration …

Role of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system activation in promoting cardiovascular fibrosis and stiffness

G Jia, AR Aroor, MA Hill, JR Sowers - Hypertension, 2018‏ - ahajournals.org
538 Hypertension September 2018 or near normal LV ejection fractions, consistent with the
clinical picture of HFpEF. In the I-PRESERVE study (Irbesartan in Heart Failure With …