Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook National University Hospital, 680 Gukchaebosang-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu, 41944, South Korea.
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, 807, Hogukno, Buk-gu, Daegu 41404, South Korea.
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, 807, Hogukno, Buk-gu, Daegu 41404, South Korea.
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, 807, Hogukno, Buk-gu, Daegu 41404, South Korea.
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook National University Hospital, 680 Gukchaebosang-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu, 41944, South Korea.
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, 807, Hogukno, Buk-gu, Daegu 41404, South Korea.
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, 807, Hogukno, Buk-gu, Daegu 41404, South Korea.
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook National University Hospital, 680 Gukchaebosang-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu, 41944, South Korea.
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, 807, Hogukno, Buk-gu, Daegu 41404, South Korea.
Gut microbiota metabolites have been mechanistically linked to inflammatory pathway activation and atherosclerosis, which are major causes of vascular stiffness (VS). Aiming to investigate if the gut ...
Several clinical studies have demonstrated that arterial stiffness is an early indicator of cardiovascular events. Our study aimed to detect the potential cardiovascular changes using arterial stiffne...
Our study is a prospective case-control study. A total of seventy subjects between the ages of 18 and 50 years were included into our study. Thirty of them were newly diagnosed cancer patients and for...
In newly diagnosed cancer patients treated with cardiotoxic chemotherapeutics, considerable impairment occurs in some of the oscillometric arterial stiffness parameters, while there is no substantial ...
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are an important cause of morbidity and mortality, impacting on both maternal and fetal wellbeing. Affected women are at higher risk of future cardiovascular morbid...
The role of spironolactone treatment in hemodialysis patients is debated, but a survival benefit is suggested. Mineralocorticoids and chronic kidney disease have been linked to cardiovascular fibrosis...
This was a randomized crossover study in hemodialysis patients supplemented with an echocardiographic case series. All outcomes reported here were secondary in the trial and were assessed without blin...
Thirty participants were recruited, 18 completed follow-up, and 17 were included in PWV-analyses. Spironolactone treatment showed a tendency toward an increase in PWV of 1.34 (95% confidence interval:...
We found no evidence supporting an effect of 12-week administration of spironolactone 50 mg daily on vascular stiffness, cardiac systolic, or diastolic function in hemodialysis patients....
To establish the arterial stiffness, represented by the cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) at various gestational ages among low-risk pregnant women. The second objective is to construct the reference...
This cross-sectional study was conducted on low risk pregnant Thai women, meeting the following inclusion criteria: 1) singleton pregnant women aged 18 years old or over; 2) gestational age between 11...
A total of 329 measurements for each parameter were available for analysis. CAVI was significantly correlated with gestational age with the best fitted model: CAVI = 6.952 - 0.076(GA) + 0.001(GA)...
The reference range of CAVI in normal pregnancies as a function of gestational age and the model for predicting CAVI based on multiple regression analysis are constructed and presented. These referenc...
The combined assessment of vascular health markers is crucial for identifying the cumulative burden of vascular risk factors early on, as well as the extent of vascular aging for effective prediction ...
A preclinical study on 90 asymptomatic individuals verified the device's functionality under ARTERY Society guidelines. The device's accuracy of stiffness measures was validated against the reference ...
The interoperator and intraoperator variability was less than 7%. Carotid artery's lumen diameter and local stiffness indices and carotid-femoral regional pulse wave velocity showed excellent agreemen...
The study demonstrated the device's ability to perform an effortless and reliable evaluation of the local and regional vascular stiffness and central BP with an accuracy that meets clinical standards....
Pulse wave velocity (PWV) independently predicts cardiovascular risk. Easy to use single-cuff oscillometric methods are utilized in clinical practice to estimate PWV. We applied the approach in master...
We obtained single-cuff upper arm oscillometric measurements thrice in 129 master athletes aged 35-86 years and estimated PWV using the ArcSolver algorithm. We applied the same method in 24 healthy pe...
Estimated pulse velocity very highly correlated with age (R...
Estimated PWV mainly reflects the entered age rather than true vascular properties and, therefore, failed detecting beneficial effects of lifelong exercise....
The AGBRESA-Study was funded by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the European Space Agency (ESA, contract number 4000113871/15/NL/PG), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, co...
Whether fluid overload is associated with vascular stiffness parameters in hemodialysis (HD) patients has not been fully elucidated. We hypothesized that interdialytic fluid accumulation increases vas...
Fluid overload and vascular stiffness parameters were assessed in 39 HD patients (20 with and 19 without fluid overload) and compared to 26 healthy controls. Fluid status was assessed 15 minutes befor...
HD patients had significant fluid overload compared to healthy controls (2.0±2.4 vs. -0.2±0.6 L; P<0.001) and baseline PWV was higher (10.3±1.7 vs. 8.8±1.4 m/s; P<0.001). There was no significant diff...
Inter- and intradialytic changes in fluid volume were only weakly related to vascular stiffness parameters in HD patients. Although there was a modest reduction in AIx in non-fluid overloaded HD patie...
Arterial stiffness, measured by arterial stiffness index (ASI), can be considered as a major denominator in cardiovascular diseases. Thus, it remains essential to highlight patient phenotyping profile...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of mortality in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Children with early-onset CKD arguably experience the greatest lifetime CVD burden. We utilized data...
CVD risk factors and outcomes including blood pressures, left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), left ventricular mass index (LVMI), and ambulatory arterial stiffness index (AASI) scores were evaluated....
Forty-one patients in the cystic kidney disease group were compared to 294 patients in the CAKUT group. Cystic kidney disease patients had higher cystatin-C levels, despite similar iGFR. Systolic bloo...
This study provides a nuanced analysis of CVD risk factors and outcomes including AASI and LVH in two pediatric CKD cohorts. Cystic kidney disease patients had increased AASI scores, higher incidence ...
