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SUBMITTER: Silva AB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8031821 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Silva Amílcar B T AB Capingana Daniel P DP Magalhães Pedro P Molina Maria Del Carmen B Mdel C Baldo Marcelo P MP Mill José Geraldo JG
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 20151212 8
Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) has been used as the gold standard method to estimate arterial stiffness. However, its use in clinical practice is still limited because reference values for specific groups, such as black children, remain unknown. The authors aimed to investigate predictors and to propose preliminary reference values of PWV in this population. Prepubertal schoolchildren (N=157; mean age, 9.36±1.41 year) from Luanda (Angola) with normal blood pressure values and without ...[more]