Arterial Stiffness, Central Pressures, and Incident Hospitalized Heart Failure in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort StudyCLINICAL PERSPECTIVE by Julio A. Chirinos, Abigail Khan, Nisha Bansal, Daniel L. Dries, Harold I. Feldman, Virginia Ford, Amanda H. Anderson, Radhakrishna Kallem, James P. Lash, Akinlolu Ojo, Martin Schreiber, Angela Sheridan, Jillian Strelsin, Valerie Teal, Jason Roy, Qiang Pan, Alan S. Go, and Raymond R. Townsend Circ Heart Fail Volume 7(5):709-716 September 16, 2014 Copyright © American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved.
A, Incident heart failure (HF) event rates among Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study participants without HF at study entry overall and by tertile of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV). A, Incident heart failure (HF) event rates among Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study participants without HF at study entry overall and by tertile of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV). B, Kaplan–Meier curves for incident HF by tertile of carotid-femoral PWV. CHF indicates congestive heart failure. Julio A. Chirinos et al. Circ Heart Fail. 2014;7:709-716 Copyright © American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved.