Vascular compliance is secured under angiotensin inhibition in non-diabetic chronic kidney diseases

Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index to Screen Cardiovascular Diseases in Patients with End-Stage Renal Diseases

“…This is compatible with the epidemiological paradox that higher BMI is associated with better prognosis in hemodialysis patients 15) . Collectively, these observations suggest that CAVI is useful as an indicator of arterial stiffness, a character of atherosclerosis, for patients with ABI over 0.9, and raises the possibility that CAVI predicts patient prognosis, as does PWV 3,16) , although the conclusion awaits a prospective study.…”

“…Blood pressure was measured thereafter, and the ankle brachial pressure index (ABI) was calculated. PWV is falsely low when ABI is lower than 0.9 3) . Patients showing an ABI lower than 0.9 were excluded from CAVI analysis.…”

“…Cuffs were placed on both ankles and a brachium, which was not used for blood access. PWV was obtained by dividing vascular length by the time taken for the pulse wave to travel from the aortic valve to the ankle 3) . Brachial-ankle PWV well correlated to aortic PWV 11) .…”

“…An increase in arterial stiffness suggests the presence of cardiovascular diseases [3][4][5] . Pulse wave velocity and the augmentation index are common examples; however, both arterial stiffness parameters are affected by blood pressure, and blood pressure abnormality is very common among patients with chronic kidney diseases 6) .…”

Effects of muscle contraction timing during resistance training on vascular function

“…A simple, noninvasive method to automatically measure baPWV was recently developed to screen large populations; 22 baPWV, a noninvasively measurable PWV, was strongly associated with aortic PWV. 23 Thus, muscular arterial stiffness may influence aortic PWV. Therefore, it was considered that baPWV, which is an index of peripheral muscular arterial stiffness, may provide qualitatively similar information to that derived from central arterial stiffness.…”