RT Journal
A1 Kaess BM, Vasan RS, Mitchell GF
T1 AOrtic stiffness and incident hypertension—reply
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2013
FD January 2
VO 309
IS 1
SP 29
OP 30
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.68805
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.68805
AB 
With regard to different subtypes of hypertension, we observed that of the 338 cases of incident hypertension at examination cycle 8 in our sample, few were isolated diastolic (n = 17) or combined systolic and diastolic (n = 26), whereas the majority were either isolated systolic (n = 102) or not classifiable due to antihypertensive treatment (n = 193). Because of the small number of incident cases that can be classified as isolated diastolic or combined hypertension, we cannot draw conclusions on the relationship between aortic stiffness (whether as a continuous or categorical value) and the subtype of hypertension.