Journal of family medicine and primary care
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J Family Med Prim Care · Apr 2019
Central hemodynamics and arterial stiffness in Gujarati diabetics not receiving any antihypertensive: A case-control study based on oscillometric pulse wave analysis.
Diabetes is a modern epidemic imposing significant cardiovascular risk. Immediate and discrete parameters such as arterial stiffness and central hemodynamics are studied scarcely. Pulse wave analysis (PWA) offers noninvasive measurement of the same and we performed that in diabetics. ⋯ Gujarati diabetics not using any antihypertensive had adverse profile of beyond brachial blood pressure discrete cardiovascular parameters, independent of duration and glycemic control, related to gender, BMI, and physical activity, indicating vascular progeria in the absence of hypertension. This baseline study suggests further work on these potential parameters.