TY  - JOUR
T1  - AOrtic stiffness and incident hypertension—reply
AU  - Kaess BM, Vasan RS, Mitchell GF
Y1  - 2013/01/02
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.68805
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 29
EP  - 30
VL  - 309
IS  - 1
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.68805
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.68805
ER  -