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ArticleAmerican journal of hypertension2022

Clinical Applications Measuring Arterial Stiffness: An Expert Consensus for the Application of Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index.

Matthew J Budoff, Bruce Alpert, Julio A Chirinos, Bo Fernhall, Naomi Hamburg, Kazuomi Kario, Iftikhar Kullo, Kunihiro Matsushita, Toru Miyoshi, Hirofumi Tanaka and 2 more

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Article in American journal of hypertension, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  15. Combined effects of hypertension and arterial stiffness on target organ damage among community-based screening participants.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Matthew J BudoffDepartment of Medicine, Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9616-1946
Bruce AlpertDepartment of Medicine, University of Tennessee Medical Group, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Julio A ChirinosDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Bo FernhallDepartment of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Naomi HamburgDepartment of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Kazuomi KarioDepartment of Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan.
Iftikhar KulloDepartment of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Kunihiro MatsushitaDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Toru MiyoshiDepartment of Medicine, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.
Hirofumi TanakaDepartment of Medicine, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
Ray TownsendDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Paul ValensiUnit of Endocrinology-Diabetology-Nutrition, Department of Medicine, Jean Verdier Hospital, AP-HP, Paris 13 University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CRNH-IdF, CINFO, Bondy, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe purpose of this document is to provide clinicians with guidance, using expert consensus, to help summarize evidence and offer practical recommendations.

methodsExpert Consensus Documents are intended to provide guidance for clinicians in areas in which there are no clinical practice guidelines, especially for new and evolving tests such as arterial stiffness measurements, until any formal guidelines are released.

resultsThis expert consensus document is intended as a source of information for decision-making and to guide clinician-patient discussions in various clinical scenarios.

conclusionsThe goal is to help clinicians and patients make a more informed decision together.

Indexed as

Vascular StiffnessAnkleConsensusHumansPulse Wave Analysisarterial stiffnessblood pressurecardio-ankle vascular indexclinicalendothelial functionexpert consensushypertensionvascular disease

Identifiers

PMID34791038
PMCPMC9088840

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