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Submitted on April 10, 2009
Revised on April 29, 2009

Role of Pulse Pressure Amplification in Arterial Hypertension. Experts' Opinion and Review of the Data

Alberto P. Avolio; Luc M. Van Bortel; Pierre Boutouyrie; John R. Cockcroft; Carmel M. McEniery; Athanase D. Protogerou^*; Mary J. Roman; Michel E. Safar; Patrick Segers; and Harold Smulyan

From the Australian School of Advanced Medicine (A.A.), Macquarie University, Sydney; Heymans Institute of Pharmacology (L.V.B.) and Biofluid, Tissue and Solid Mechanics for Medical Applications (bioMMeda) Institute, Biomedical Technology (P.S.), Ghent University, Belgium; Université Paris Descartes, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, HEGP, Service de Pharmacologie (P.B.), and Hotel-Dieu Centre de Diagnostic et de Thérapeutique (M.E.S.), Paris, France; Wales Heart Research Institute (J.R.C.), Cardiff University, UK; Clinical Pharmacology Unit (C.M.E.), University of Cambridge, UK; Hypertension Center, 3rd Department of Medicine (A.P.), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Weill Cornell Medical College (M.J.R.), New York, USA; and State University of New York, Upstate Medical University (H.S.), Syracuse, USA.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: aprotog{at}med.uoa.gr.

Key words: pressure amplification • wave propagation • arterial stiffness • wave reflection

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