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(Hypertension. 1995;26:301-306.)
© 1995 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Pulse Pressure and Resistance Artery Structure in the Elderly
From the University Departments of Medicine for the Elderly, Glenfield Hospital (M.A.J., J.F.P.), and Medicine and Therapeutics, Leicester Royal Infirmary (P.A.C.W., H.T., J.D.S.), Leicester, UK.
Correspondence to Dr Martin A. James, University Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK.
Abstract There has been recent interest in the possibility that resistance vessel structural adaptation in hypertension may be more closely related to pulse pressure than to other blood pressure parameters. We investigated the relation between blood pressure and resistance vessel structure in a group of subjects from an age group (older than 60 years) in which a widening of pulse pressure is a typical finding and characterized blood pressure parameters using 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. We studied resistance vessels retrieved from biopsies of skin and subcutaneous fat taken from the gluteal region of 32 subjects under local anesthesia (age, 70±1 years [mean±SEM]), 21 of whom were hypertensive and 11 normotensive. Media-lumen ratio was higher in the hypertensive than the normotensive subjects (18.6±1.6% versus 12.8±1.2%, P<.01) and correlated with age (r=.44, P<.05), clinic systolic pressure (r=.35, P<.05), 24-hour systolic pressure (r=.40, P<.05), and 24-hour pulse pressure (r=.56, P<.001). Stepwise multivariate regression analysis identified clinic and 24-hour pulse pressure as the only significant predictors of media-lumen ratio independent of age, other parameters of clinic blood pressure, and blood pressure variability (R2=41%, P<.05). These findings confirm those from animal models of hypertension in demonstrating the importance of pulse pressure in relation to cardiovascular structural adaptation and have important implications for the goals of treatment of hypertension in the elderly.
Key Words: pulse • blood pressure monitoring • vascular resistance • blood vessels • hypertension, essential
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