Availability of Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index (CAVI) as a Screening Tool for Atherosclerosis

Head-to-head comparison of the cardio-ankle vascular index between patients with acute coronary syndrome and stable angina pectoris

“…Furthermore, as many studies have reported, [3][4][5][6]17 it was the strongest predictor variable of CAVI in the multivariate linear regression analysis in both patient groups. The result that ACS was another strong independent determinant of CAVI in the entire study group highlights the significant increase in CAVI in ACS patients as compared with SAP patients.…”

“…CAVI, an arterial stiffness parameter, is known to increase parallel to the progression of the carotid arterial thickness. [3][4][5][6] However, despite having a lower IMT, ACS patients had a rather higher CAVI compared with SAP patients. This discrepancy may be explained by the transient increase in CAVI observed in ACS patients.…”

“…1, 2 The CAVI is significantly associated with the parameters related to atherosclerosis; [3][4][5][6][7] furthermore, it is positively correlated with the severity of coronary artery disease. 5,6 However, there are few reports on CAVI in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) requiring emergency revascularization.…”

Tissue Doppler Echocardiography for Predicting Arterial Stiffness Assessed by Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index

“…However, that study was performed by measuring carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, which though noninvasive requires a complicated technique. Our data demonstrated similar results using CAVI, which has been recently established as a marker of arterial stiffness and is widely used in clinical settings (Kubozono et al 2007;Takaki et al 2007;Kadota et al 2008;Takaki et al 2008). Mizuguchi et al (2007) demonstrated that CAVI was more closely related to the LV diastolic functional parameter (early diastolic strain rate) obtained from tissue Doppler echocardiography than that obtained from conventional Doppler echocardiography, and concluded that arterial stiffness was associated with LV relaxation during early diastole.…”

Noninvasive Vascular Function Tests – Long Journey for Predicting Cardiovascular Events –

“…There are many vascular measurements for evaluating atherosclerosis in routine clinical practice, and a number of measures of vascular function [including measurement of brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (ba-PWV), flow-mediated vasodilatation of the brachial artery induced by reactive hyperemia, and ankle-brachial blood pressure index] are available to access future cardiovascular risk. 2 The cardioankle vascular index (CAVI) is a relatively novel index of aortic stiffness, 3 and is obtained from measurement of ba-PWV and blood pressure.…”