Publications


SphygmoCor for central blood pressure and arterial stiffness assessments is supported by more than 1,600 peer-reviewed publications. Following is a list of recent articles as well as highlights of articles published in specific clinical areas.

Recent Studies

Physiological determinants of residual cerebral arterial pulsatility on best medical treatment after TIA or minor stroke

Association of Macronutrient Consumption with Arterial Aging in Adults without Clinically Overt Cardiovascular Disease: A 5-Year Prospective Cohort Study

Late-Life Blood Pressure Association with Cerebrovascular and Alzheimer Disease Pathology

Effect of Carbohydrate Restriction-Induced Weight loss on Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity in Overweight Men and Women

Physical Fitness and Aortic Stiffness Explain the Reduced Cognitive Performance Associated with Increasing Age in Older People

Association Between Ambulatory Blood Pressure Values and Central Aortic Pressure in a Large Population of Normotensive and Hypertensive Patients

Association of Pulse Wave Velocity With Chronic Kidney Disease Progression and Mortality, Findings From the CRIC Study (Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort)

Surrogate Markers of Cardiovascular Risk and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Hypertension

CardieX Viewpoint: The Case for Non-Invasive Central Aortic Pressure Monitoring in the Management of Hypertension

The Prevalence of Central Hypertension Defined by a Central Blood Pressure Type I Device and its Association with Target Organ Damage in the Community-Dwelling Elderly Chinese: The Northern Shanghai Study

Pulsatile load components, resistive load and incident heart failure: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)

Novel uses of office-based measures of arterial compliance

Clinical use of pulse wave analysis: proceedings from a symposium sponsored by North American Artery 

Recommendations for improving and standardizing vascular research on arterial stiffness: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

Central hemodynamics for risk reduction strategies: additive value over and above brachial blood pressure

Establishing reference values for central blood pressure and its amplification in a general healthy population and according to cardiovascular risk factors

Arterial stiffness is associated with increase in blood pressure over time in treated hypertensives

Central hemodynamics and target organ damage in hypertension

Association of central and peripheral blood pressures with intermediate cardiovascular phenotypes

A randomized pilot study of aortic waveform guided therapy in chronic heart failure 

Aortic, but not brachial blood pressure category, enhances the ability to identify target organ changes in normotensives 

Indices of central aortic blood pressure and their impact on cardiovascular outcome

Differential effects of nebivolol and metoprolol on central aortic pressure and left ventricular wall thickness

Choosing an antihypertensive combination with a more efficient central blood pressure reduction

The effect of antihypertensive drugs on central blood pressure beyond peripheral blood pressure.  Part I : (patho)-physiology, rationale and perspective on pulse pressure amplification

Differential impact of blood pressure-lowering drugs on central aortic pressure and clinical outcomes. Principal results of the conduit artery function evaluation (CAFE) study

Renal Disease

Invasive aortic pulse wave velocity as a marker for arterial stiffness predicts outcome of renal sympathetic denervation. EuroIntervention

Pulsatile load components, resistive load and incident heart failure: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)

Central blood pressure and chronic kidney disease

Pulse wave velocity predicts response to renal denervation in isolated systolic hypertension

Increased arterial stiffness is an independent predictor of renal function decline in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus younger than 60 years

Invasive aortic pulse wave velocity as a marker for arterial stiffness predicts outcome of renal sympathetic denervation

Large artery stiffness using SphygmoCor technology

Novel uses of office-based measures of arterial compliance

Clinical use of pulse wave analysis: proceedings from a symposium sponsored by North American Artery

Recommendations for improving and standardizing vascular research on arterial stiffness: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

Central hemodynamics for risk reduction strategies: additive value over and above brachial blood pressure

Arterial stiffness and chronic kidney disease: lessons from the chronic renal insufficiency study

Arterial stiffness and chronic kidney disease

Establishing reference values for central blood pressure and its amplification in a general healthy population and according to cardiovascular risk factors

Arterial stiffness and its clinical implications in women

Central hemodynamics and target organ damage in hypertension

Association of central and peripheral blood pressures with intermediate cardiovascular phenotypes

A randomized pilot study of aortic waveform guided therapy in chronic heart failure

Randomized trial of guiding hypertension management using central aortic blood pressure compared with best-practice care:  Principal findings of the BP GUIDE study

Aortic, but not brachial blood pressure category, enhances the ability to identify target organ changes in normotensives

Indices of central aortic blood pressure and their impact on cardiovascular outcome

Differential effects of nebivolol and metoprolol on central aortic pressure and left ventricular wall thickness

Choosing an antihypertensive combination with a more efficient central blood pressure reduction

The effect of antihypertensive drugs on central blood pressure beyond peripheral blood pressure.  Part I : (Patho)-physiology, rationale and perspective on pulse pressure amplification

Differential impact of blood pressure-lowering drugs on central aortic pressure and clinical outcomes. Principal results of the conduit artery function evaluation (CAFE) study

Cognitive Function

Late-Life Blood Pressure Association with Cerebrovascular and Alzheimer Disease Pathology

Physical Fitness and Aortic Stiffness Explain the Reduced Cognitive Performance Associated with Increasing Age in Older People

Association of arterial stiffness and central pressure with cognitive function in incident hemodialysis patients: the PACE study

Higher arterial stiffness is associated with lower cognitive performance in patients with hypertension

Blood pressure and cognitive function: the role of central aortic and brachial pressures

Roles of arterial stiffness and blood pressure in hypertension-associated cognitive decline in healthy adults

Association between central blood pressure, arterial stiffness, and mild cognitive impairment

Association Between Central Blood Pressure and Subclinical Cerebrovascular Disease in Older Adults

Sports Medicine

Large artery stiffness assessment using SphygmoCor technology

Pulsatile load components, resistive load and incident heart failure: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)

Post‑exercise effects on aortic wave reflection derived from wave separation analysis in young‑ to middle‑aged pre‑hypertensives and hypertensives

Recommendations for improving and standardizing vascular research on arterial stiffness: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

Impact of American-style football participation on vascular function

Aerobic exercise training reduces arterial stiffness in metabolic syndrome

Effects of resistance training on central blood pressure in obese young men

Aortic pulse wave velocity improves cardiovascular event prediction: an individual participant meta-analysis of prospective observational data from 17,635 subjects

Hemodynamic and arterial stiffness differences between African-Americans and Caucasians after maximal exercise

Aortic, but not brachial blood pressure category, enhances the ability to identify target organ changes in normotensives

Aerobic training-induced improvements in arterial stiffness are not sustained in older adults with multiple cardiovascular risk factors

Resistance, aerobic, and combination training on vascular function in overweight and obese adults  

Effects of resistance training on arterial stiffness:  a meta-analysis 

Association of age with timing and amplitude of reflected pressure waves during exercise in men

Differences in central systolic blood pressure and aortic stiffness between aerobically trained and sedentary individuals 

Arterial stiffness and wave Reflections in marathon runners

Resistance exercise training reduces central blood pressure and improves microvascular function in African American and white men

Validation of a generalized transfer function to noninvasively derive central blood pressure during exercise

Aortic augmentation index is inversely associated with cardiorespiratory fitness in men without known coronary heart disease