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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on September 1, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(20):2081-2082; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi427
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New problems raised by increased pulse pressure

Michel E. Safar*

Diagnosis Center, Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, 1, place du Parvis Notre-Dame, 75181 Paris Cedex 04, France

* Corresponding author. Tel: +33 1 42 34 80 25; fax: +33 1 42 34 86 32. E-mail address: michel.safar@htd.ap-hop-paris.fr

This editorial refers to ‘Importance of arterial pulse pressure as a predictor of coronary heart disease risk in PROCAM’{dagger} by G. Assmann et al., on page 2120

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There is now ample evidence that brachial artery pulse pressure (PP) is an independent predictor of cardiovascular (CV) outcomes, principally in subjects aged >59. This finding has been observed not only in European but also in American and Asiatic populations. The results of PROCAM, which involves a 10-year follow-up of more than 20 000 subjects, allow new prospective views on this finding.1

Initially, studies on PP were focussed on two principal aspects. First, as the incidence of aortic insufficiency is nowadays consistently reduced in patients with CV diseases, the meaning of increased PP remained almost unknown till the recent years, particularly in the elderly. Thus, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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