Cited by 2,225Cardiovascular Health and Disease PreventionCardiovascular Function and Risk FactorsNon-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring

Arterial Stiffness and Cardiovascular Events: The Framingham Heart Study

Open access
Mitchell, Gary F., Hwang, Shih-Jen, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Larson, Martin G., Pencina, Michael J., Hamburg, Naomi M., Vita, Joseph A., Levy, Daniel +1 more·2010·Circulation

Abstract

Background— Various measures of arterial stiffness and wave reflection have been proposed as cardiovascular risk markers. Prior studies have not assessed relations of a comprehensive panel of stiffness measures to prognosis in the community. Methods and Results— We used proportional hazards models to analyze first-onset major cardiovascular disease events (myocardial infarction, unstable angina, heart failure, or stroke) in relation to arterial stiffness (pulse wave velocity [PWV]), wave reflection (augmentation index, carotid-brachial pressure amplification), and central pulse pressure in 2232 participants (mean age, 63 years; 58% women) in the Framingham Heart Study. During median follow-up of 7.8 (range, 0.2 to 8.9) years, 151 of 2232 participants (6.8%) experienced an event. In multivariable models adjusted for age, sex, systolic blood pressure, use of antihypertensive therapy, total and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations, smoking, and presence of diabetes mellitus, higher aortic PWV was associated with a 48% increase in cardiovascular disease risk (95% confidence interval, 1.16 to 1.91 per SD; P =0.002). After PWV was added to a standard risk factor model, integrated discrimination improvement was 0.7% (95% confidence interval, 0.05% to 1.3%; P <0.05). In contrast, augmentation index, central pulse pressure, and pulse pressure amplification were not related to cardiovascular disease outcomes in multivariable models. Conclusions— Higher aortic stiffness assessed by PWV is associated with increased risk for a first cardiovascular event. Aortic PWV improves risk prediction when added to standard risk factors and may represent a valuable biomarker of cardiovascular disease risk in the community.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1161/circulationaha.109.886655

Cites

41 of 41 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. [21]Dawber TR Meadors GF Moore FE Jr Epidemiological approaches to heart disease: the Framingham Study Am J Public Health 1951 41 279 281 PMC1525365 14819398

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Mitchell, G. F., Hwang, S.-J., Vasan, R. S., Larson, M. G., Pencina, M. J., Hamburg, N. M., Vita, J. A., Levy, D., & Benjamin, E. J.
Affiliations
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (US)
Venue
Circulation
Published
2010-02-02
Volume
121
Issue
4
Pages
505-511
ISSN
  • 0009-7322 (ISSN-L)
  • 1524-4539
OpenAlex
W2161841978
Cited by
2,225
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 108 · 2025: 138 · 2024: 144 · 2023: 133 · 2022: 154 · 2021: 171 · 2020: 162 · 2019: 124 · 2018: 154 · 2017: 150 · 2016: 167 · 2015: 144 · 2014: 134 · 2013: 107 · 2012: 114
FWCI
74.64
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Circulation (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (n01hc25195-41-0-1, 5r01hl080124-05)
  • National Institute on Aging (R01AG028321, AG-028321)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01-HL080124, HL-076784, 2K24 HL 04334, N01‐HC25195, HL 080124, K24HL004334, HL077447, N01-HC-025195, R01HL077447, R01HL076784, HL070100, R01HL070100, HL071039, R01HL060040, R01HL071039)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
Keywords
arterial stiffness, pulse wave velocity, wave reflection, cardiovascular risk prediction, cardiovascular events, myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, aortic stiffness, augmentation index, central pulse pressure, Framingham Heart Study
MeSH terms
Aged, Angina, Unstable, Aorta, Blood Flow Velocity, Blood Pressure, Brachial Artery, Carotid Arteries, Elasticity, Female, Femoral Artery, Follow-Up Studies, Heart Failure, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Myocardial Infarction, Risk Factors, Cohort Studies, Biomarkers, Proportional Hazards Models, Stroke

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review