Increased Arterial Stiffness in Europeans and African Caribbeans With Type 2 Diabetes Cannot be Accounted for by Conventional Cardiovascular Risk Factors | Zendy

W. David Strain | Zendy; Nish Chaturvedi | Zendy; Frances Dockery | Zendy; Ron Shiff | Zendy; Angela C. Shore | Zendy; C J Bulpitt | Zendy; Chakravarthi Rajkumar | Zendy

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Increased Arterial Stiffness in Europeans and African Caribbeans With Type 2 Diabetes Cannot be Accounted for by Conventional Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Author(s) -

W. David Strain,

Nish Chaturvedi,

Frances Dockery,

Ron Shiff,

Angela C. Shore,

C J Bulpitt,

Chakravarthi Rajkumar

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

american journal of hypertension

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009

H-Index - 136

eISSN - 1941-7225

pISSN - 0895-7061

DOI - 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2006.01.009

Subject(s) - medicine , arterial stiffness , type 2 diabetes , diabetes mellitus , cardiology , risk factor , blood pressure , endocrinology

The impact of diabetes on vascular target organ damage (TOD) is not wholly explained by conventional risk factors. African Caribbeans have a greater prevalence of diabetes and some aspects of TOD. We hypothesized that arterial stiffness, an independent cardiovascular risk factor, would be more prevalent with diabetes and in African Caribbeans with diabetes than Europeans.

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