Artery Research

A numerical study on the application of the functionally graded bioabsorbable materials in the stent design

Hossein Bahreinizad, Milad Salimi Bani, Arezoo Khosravi, Alireza Karimi

Arterial baroreflex sensitivity: Relationship with peripheral chemoreflex in patients with chronic heart failure

Nikita Trembach, Igor Zabolotskikh

Peripheral blood flow regulation in response to sympathetic stimulation in individuals with down syndrome

Thessa I. M. Hilgenkamp, Sang Ouk Wee, Elizabeth C. Schroeder, Tracy Baynard, Bo Fernhall

Combinatorial effect of lower extremity blood flow restriction and low intensity endurance exercise on aorta of old male rats: Histomorphological and molecular approach

Mohammad-Abbas Bejeshk, Siyavash Joukar, Beydolah Shahouzehi, Majid Asadi-shekari, Mohammadamin Rajizadeh, Alireza Raji-amirhasani, Vida Naderi-boldaji

Association of serum paraoxonase activity with lipid profile, APO-A and APO-B in subjects with different levels of HDL

Maryam Teimouri, Hashem Nayeri

Relationships between blood pressure variability and silent cerebral infarction in patients with primary hypertension

Xianglin Chi, Xingyao Wang, Zhaorong Guo, Honghao Man, Hongxiao Xu, Yingcui Wang, Chengyu Liu

Interaction of the blood components and plaque in a stenotic coronary artery

Alireza Karimi, Reza Razaghi

Peripheral Blood Flow Regulation in Response to Sympathetic Stimulation in Individuals with Down Syndrome

Thessa I. M. Hilgenkamp, Sang Ouk Wee, Tracy Baynard, Bo Fernhall

Validation of Ultrasound Determination of Local Pulse Wave Velocity in the Human Ascending Aorta Against MRI Measurements

Negoita Madalina, Manisty Charlotte, Bhuva Anish, Hughes Alun, Parker Kim, Khir Ashraf

The Regulatory Role of Coagulation Factors on Arterial Function

Jeremy Lagrange

New Drug Targets for Slowing Vascular Ageing: Sirt1, Sirt5, Jund and P66Sch

Luca Liberale

Greater Aortic Stiffness is Associated with Lower Hippocampal Cerebrovascular Reserve but not Cerebral Blood Flow or Amyloid in Middle-Aged and Older Adults

Lyndsey E. DuBose, Laura L. Boles Ponto, David J. Moser, Gary L. Pierce

Association of Pulse Wave Velocity and Body Mass Index in Healthy Mexican Population

Daniela Avila Novoa, M. Cárdenas, E. G. Cardona, D. Cardona, F. Grover, C. Ramos, J. Trujillo

Which is More Correlated with Hypertensive Organ Damage, Sleep Blood Pressure Assessed by Self-Measured at Home or Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring?: The Japan Morning Surge-Home Blood Pressure (J-Hop) Study

Sirisawat Wanthong, Tomoyuki Kabutoya, Satoshi Hoshide, Kazuomi Kario

Molecular and Cellular Changes in Arterial Function Over the Life Course — from Accelerated Ageing to Calcification

Catherine M. Shanahan

Novel Research Funding Opportunities

Warwick Anderson

Arterial Stiffness as a Risk Factor for Cerebral Vascular Lesions

Dariusz Gasecki

Childhood Determinants of Arterial Dysfunction Central and Peripheral Blood Pressure

Renate Oberhoffer

Are Central Hemodynamic Parameters Better Prognostic Markers than Peripheral Blood Pressure in Stroke?

Alberto Avolio, Ernesto L. Schiffrin

The Haemodynamic Genesis of Hypertension

Phil Chowienczyk

1.1 Promotion of Arterial Stiffness by Childhood Cancer and its Characteristics in Adult Long-Term Survivors

Natalie Arnold, Hiltrud Merzenich, Arthur Wingerter, Andreas Schluz, Astrid Schneider, Jürgen H. Prochaska, Sebastian Goöbel, Marie-Astrid Neu, Nicole Henninger, Marina Panova-Noeva, Susan Eckerle, Claudia Spix, Irene Schidtmann, Karl J. Lackner, Manfred E. Beutel, Norbert Pfeiffer, Thomas Muünzel, Joörg Faber, Philipp S. Wild

1.2 Associations Between Indicators of Cardiovascular Disease and Pulse Wave Analysis and Velocity: A Comparison of Devices

Elizabeth Ellins, Lucy Lennon, Olia Papacosta, Goya Wannamethee, Peter Whincup, Julian Halcox

1.3 Prediction of Cardiovascular Mortality and Morbidity in the Malmö Diet-Cancer Cohort for the Identification of Healthy Vascular Ageing, using Markers of Vascular Status

Benjamin Nilsson Wadström, Peter Nilsson, Abd Al-Hakim Fatehali, Gunnar Engstrom

1.4 Prognostic Value of Proximal Aorta Longitudinal Strain in Marfan Syndrome

Andrea Guala, Jose Rodríguez-Palomares, Aroa Ruiz-Muñoz, Minerva Gandara, Violeta Sanchez, Alberto Forteza, David Garcia-Dorado, Artur Evangelista, Gisela Teixido-Tura

1.5 Deep Vascular Phenotyping in Patients with Fibromuscular Dysplasia

Rosa Maria Bruno, Louise Marais, Hakim Khettab, Aurélien Lorthioir, Xavier Jeunemaitre, Stèphane Laurent, Pierre Boutouyrie, Michel Azizi

1.6 Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity in Portuguese Children and Adolescents - Results from the Portuguese Vascular Phenotype in Children and Adolescents (PORT-VASPh) Cohort

Telmo Pereira, João Maldonado, Margarida Carvalho

2.1 Knock-Out of Matrix Metalloproteinase-12 Exacerbates Compromised Mechanical Homeostasis in Arterial Aging

Bart Spronck, Abhay B. Ramachandra, Jakub Toczek, Jinah Han, Mehran Sadeghi, Jay D. Humphrey

2.2 Greater Blood Pressure Variability is Associated with Lower Cognitive Performance — the Maastricht Study

Tan Lai Zhou, Abraham Kroon, Coen Stehouwer, Martin van Boxtel, Frans Verhey, Miranda Schram, Thomas van Sloten, Ronald Henry

2.3 Occupational, Sport and Leisure Related Physical Activity Have Contrasting Effects on Neural Baroreflex Sensitivity. The Paris Prospective Study III

Rachel Climie, Pierre Boutouyrie, Marie-Cecile Perier, Edouard Chaussade, Matthieu Plichart, Lucile Offredo, Catherine Guilbout, Thomas van Sloten, Frederique Thomas, Bruno Pannier, James Sharman, Stephane Laurent, Xavier Jouven, Jean-Philippe Empana

2.4 Central Systolic Blood Pressure Provides Additional Information in Risk Prediction in Hemodialysis Patients

Christopher C. Mayer, Julia Matschkal, Pantelis A. Sarafidis, Stefan Hagmair, Georg Lorenz, Susanne Angermann, Matthias C. Braunisch, Marcus Baumann, Uwe Heemann, Christoph Schmaderer, Siegfried Wassertheurer

2.5 Does Wave Reflection Protect the Microvasculature from High Pulse Pressure?

Avinash Kondiboyina, Joe Smolich, Michael Cheung, Berend Westerhof, Nico Westerhof, Jonathan Mynard

2.6 Feasibility of Aortic Wave Intensity Analysis from Sequentially Acquired Cardiac Mri and Non-Invasive Central Blood Pressure

Anish Bhuva, Niro Nadarajan, Andrew D’Silva, Camilla Torlasco, Redha Boubertakh, Siana Jones, Paul Scully, Rachel Bastiaenen, Guy Lloyd, Sanjay Sharma, James Moon, Kim Parker, Charlotte Manisty, Alun Hughes

2.7 Fitness Modifies the Association Between Exercise Blood Pressure and Left-Ventricular Mass in Adolescence

Zhengzheng Huang, Ricardo Fonseca, James Sharman, Nish Chaturvedi, George Smith, Deborah Lawlor, Laura Howe, Chloe Park, Alun Hughes, Martin Schultz, Martin Schultz

2.8 Relationships Between Adiposity and Left Ventricular Function in Adolescents: Mediation by Blood Pressure and other Cardiovascular Measures

Hannah Taylor, Alun D. Hughes, Abigail Fraser, Laura Howe, George Davey Smith, Debbie Lawlor, Nishi Chaturvedi, Chloe Park

3.1 Strain Discontinuities in Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaques - A Novel Marker for Plaque Vulnerability?

Tim Vonk, Evelien Hermeling, Floris Schreuder, Werner Mess, Eline Kooi

3.2 Reservoir Pressure Integral is Independently Associated with the Reduction in Renal Function in an Older Population

Kunihiko Aizawa, Francesco Casanova, David M. Mawson, Kim M. Gooding, W. David Strain, Phillip E. Gates, Gerd Östling, Faisel Khan, Helen M. Colhoun, Carlo Palombo, Kim H. Parker, Jan Nilsson, Angela C. Shore, Alun D. Hughes

3.3 Role of Arterial Stiffness and Blood Pressure Variability in the Definition of Shats (Systemic Hemodynamic Atherothrombotic Syndrome)

Angelo Scuteri, Valentina Rovella, Danilo Alunni Fegatelli, Manfredi Tesauro, Marco Gabriele, Nicola Di Daniele

3.4 A Clinical Score to Predict Elevated Arterial Stiffness: Derivation and Validation in 3,943 Hypertensive Patients

Panagiotis Xaplanteris, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Athanasios Protogerou, Konstantinos Aznaouridis, Dimitris Terentes-Printzios, Antonis Argyris, Nikolaos Tentolouris, Petros Sfikakis, Dimitris Tousoulis

3.5 Cuff Blood Pressure is Progressively More Biased with Increasing Age: Individual Participant Level Analysis from the Inspect Consortium

Dean Picone, Martin Schultz, Petr Otahal, Ahmed Al-Jumaily, J. Andrew Black, Willem Bos, Chen-Huan Chen, Hao-Min Chen, Antoine Cremer, Nathan Dwyer, Ricardo Fonseca Diaz, Brian Gould, Alun Hughes, Hack-Lyoung Kim, Peter Lacy, Esben Laugesen, Sandy Muecke, Nobuyuki Ohte, Stefano Omboni, Christian Ott, Xiaoqing Peng, Telmo Pereira, Giacomo Pucci, Philip Roberts-Thomson, Niklas Rossen, Roland Schmieder, Velandai Srikanth, Ralph Stewart, George Stouffer, Daisuke Sueta, Kenji Takazawa, Ji-Guang Wang, Thomas Weber, Berend Westerhof, Bryan Williams, Hirotsugu Yamada, Eiichiro Yamamoto, James Sharman

3.6 Blood Pressure Reduction is the Main Determinant of the De-Stiffening Effect of Antihypertensive Treatment: A Meta-Regression Analysis and Comparison with Acute Modulation of Transmural Pressure

Andrii Boguslavskyi, Benyu Jiang, Haotian Gu, Yao Lu, Marina Cecelja, Phil Chowienczyk

3.7 Pulse Wave Velocity is an Independent Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Events, Mortality and Decline in Renal Function in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

Tine Willum Hansen, Marie Frimodt-Møller, Simone Theilade, Nete Tofte, Tarun Veer Singh Ahluwalia, Peter Rossing

3.8 Childhood Obesity: Does it have any Effect on Young Arteries?

Erzsébet Valéria Hidvégi, Andrea Emese Jakab, Miklós Illyés, Attila Cziráki

4.1 Probing Arterial Stiffness at the Nano-Scale using the Internal Mammary Artery as a Novel Target

Riaz Akhtar, Zhuo Chang, Maria Lyck Hansen, Hans Christian Beck, Lars Melholt Rasmussen

4.2 Discrepancy Between In-Vivo Measure and Ex-Vivo Calculation of Pulse Wave Velocity in Retinal Arteries

Mahdieh Rezaeian, Arthur Leloup, Angela Schulz, Mojtaba Golzan, Stuart Graham, Alberto P. Avolio, Mark Butlin

4.3 Whole-Body vs. Regional Arterial Stiffness: Implications for a Single Windkessel Model of the Circulation

Joseph Izzo, Sherif El-sayed, Rahil Ahmed, Peter Osmond, Benjamin Gavish

4.4 Can Laser Doppler Vibrometer Detect Carotid Stenosis from Skin Vibrations? Hydraulic Bench Tests on Patient-Specific Model

Viviana Mancini, Daniela Tommasin, Yanlu Li, Roel Baets, Stephen Greenwald, Patrick Segers

4.5 Cardiac Output Estimation from Beat-to-Beat Radial Pressure and Pulse Wave Velocity: A Model-Based Study

Vasiliki Bikia, Stamatia Pagoulatou, Theodore G. Papaioannou, Nikolaos Stergiopulos

4.6 Inflammation and Aortic Stiffness. A Multicentre Longitudinal Study in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Luca Zanoli, Kadir Ozturk, Maria Cappello

4.7 The Effect of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation on Aortic Stiffness and Hemodynamics

Vasiliki Gardikioti, D. Terentes-Printzios, C. Vlachopoulos, K. Toutouzas, M. Xanthopoulou, G. Benetos, G. Latsios, V. Penesopoulou, V. Tsigkou, G. Siasos, E. Vavuranakis, D. Tousoulis

4.8 Placental Na/K-Atpase Inhibitor Marinobufagenin Induces Arterial Wall Fibrosis in Preeclampsia

Olga Fedorova, Natalia Aglakova, Yulia Grigorova, Vitalily Reznik, Valintina Zernetkina, Wen Wei, Edward Lakatta, Alexei Bagrov

5.1 Stress-Induced Sympathetic Activity and the Retinal Vasculature: The Sabpa Prospective Study

Leoné Malan, Nicolaas Malan, Wayne Smith

5.2 Differential Characteristics Between Aortic Pressure Augmentation and Carotid Flow Augmentation: Clinical Implications for Cerebral White Matter Hyperintensities

Junichiro Hashimoto, Berend Westerhof, Sadayoshi Ito

5.3 Carotid Artery Stiffness Increases the Risk of Incident Depressive Symptoms: The Paris Prospective Study 3

Thomas van Sloten, Pierre Boutouyrie, Muriel Tafflet, Lucile Offredo, Frédérique Thomas, Catherine Guibout, Rachel Climie, Cedric Lemogne, Bruno Pannier, Stephane Laurent, Xavier Jouven, Jean-philippe Empana

5.4 Age-Induced Increase in the Energy Transmitted Towards the Cerebral Circulation as a Contributor to Impaired Brain Function

Stamatia Pagoulatou, Jonathan Mynard, Vasiliki Bikia, Julio Chirinos, Nikolaos Stergiopulos, Patrick Segers

5.5 Mediator Effect of Cardiorespiratory Fitness on the Relationship Between Arterial Stiffness and Cognitive Function

Alinne Nascimento, Raquel Silva, Joana Carvalho, Lucimere Bohn

P1 Determinants of Peripheral Pulse Pressure and Pulse Pressure Amplification

Ye Li, Antoine Guilcher, Samuel Vennin, Jordi Alastruey-arimon, Phil Chowienczyk

P2 Determination of Local Pulse Wave Velocity does not Affected by Reflection

Ye Li, Ashraf Khir

P3 Understanding the Endothelial — Smooth Muscle — Fibroblastic Cells Interactions on a Tissue-Engineered Vascular Graft

Tatiana Felizardo, Nuno M. Neves, Albino Martins, Rui L. Reis

P4 Mechanism of Proangiogenic Activity of Mitocorrectin on Endothelial Cells in Vitro

Tetiana Nikolaienko, Victoriia Nikulina, Liudmyla Garmanchuk, Oleksander Makarenko

P5 Regional Variations in the Micromechanical and Biochemical Properties of the Ovine Aorta

Phakakorn Panpho, Riaz Akhtar, Jill Madine, Mark Field

P6 Arterial Structure and Coagulation in Ageing Naked Mole Rats

Takouhie Mgrditchian-Griffo

P7 Telomere Length and Aortic Valve Calcification

Ilona Saraieva, Simon Toupance, Magnus Back, Benetos Athanase

P8 The Effect of Caffeine on Mental Stress Related Cardiovascular Response

Ziva Melik, Ksenija Cankar

P10 Combination of Flow-Mediated Dilation and Pulse Wave Velocity Provides Further Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: Flow-Mediated Dilation Japan Study a (Fmd-J A)

Yukihito Higashi, Tatsuya Maruhashi, Hirofumi Tomiyama, Bonpei Takase, Toru Suzuki, Yasuki Kihara, Akira Yamashina

P11 Effect of Aging on the Pressure Asymptote and Time Constant of Exponential Diastolic Aortic Pressure Decay in Humans

Tetsu Yamakado

P12 Validation of Synthesized Central Pressure Waveform in Patients with an Infrarenal Aortic Aneurysm Before and after Endovascular Repair

Suzanne Holewijn, Lennart van der Velde, Majorie van Helvert, Thomas Urgert, Gerike Buitenhuis, Erik Groot Jebbink, Michel Reijnen

P13 Vascular and Muscle Deterioration in Older Outpatients

Lisanne Tap, Linda Kannegieter, Antine Flikweert, Francesco Mattace Raso

P14 Reference Values of the West Spanish Population of the Hemodynamic Indices Evaluated with a New Wrist Worn Device

Marta Gomez-Sanchez, Leticia Gomez-Sanchez, Rosario Alonso-Domínguez, Jesus Gonzalez-Sanchez, Cristina Agudo-Conde, Natalia Sánchez-Aguadero, Carmela Rodriguez-Martin, Luis Garcia-Ortiz

P15 Effect of Upright Posture on Central Wave Reflection in 637 Volunteers not using Medications with Direct Cardiovascular Influences: Description of Different Phenotypes

Ilkka Pörsti, Matias Wilenius, Antti Tikkakoski, Arttu Eräranta, Manoj Kumar Choudhary, Jenni Koskela, Anna Tahvanainen, Jukka Mustonen

P16 Pulse Wave Velocity and its Association with First Cardiovascular Events in a Portuguese Hypertensive Sample

Clarinda Neves, Joana Ricardo Pires, Verónica Ribau, José Mesquita Bastos

P17 Arterial Stiffness of the Forearm is Associated with Nailfold Capillary Count in Systemic Sclerosis: A Novel Marker of Early Vasculopathy?

Anniek van Roon, Amaal Eman Abdulle, Arie van Roon, Saskia van de Zande, Hendrika Bootsma, Andries Smit, Udo Mulder

P18 Aortic Stiffness in Aortic Stenosis: Short Term Hemodynamic Changes after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

Jeannette Goudzwaard, Nahid El Faquir, Nicolas van Mieghem, Marjo de Ronde-Tillmans, Mattie Lenzen, Peter de Jaegere, Francesco Mattace-Raso

P19 Effect of Growth Hormone Replacement in the Vascular System of Adult Patients with Childhood Onset Hypopituitarism

Isabela Biscotto, Valeria Costa-Hong, Luiz Bortolotto, Luciani Carvalho

P20 Brachial and Radial Systolic Blood Pressure are not the Same: Potential Implications for Validation Protocols Including Brachial Cuff Devices and Wrist-Based Wearables

Matthew Armstrong, Martin Schultz, Dean Picone, James Sharman, Nathan Dwyer, Philip Roberts-Thomson, Andrew Black

P21 Characterization of an Atherosclerotic Phenotype

Pedro Forcada, Castellaro Carlos, Sergio Gonzalez, Carol Kotliar, Sebastian Obregon, Jorge Chiabaut Svane

P22 The Role of Renal Dysfunction on Target Organ Damage and Cardiovascular Risk in Hypertensives

Eirini Solomou, Dimitrios Terentes Printzios, Charalampos Vlachopoulos, N. Ioakimidis, K. Aznaouridis, I. Koutagiar, V. Gardikioti, E. Sigala, D. Tousoulis

P23 The Comparison of Prognostic Value Among Ankle Brachial Pressure Index, Arterial Stiffness and Pressure Wave Reflection in Subjects with Coronary Artery Disease

Kazutaka Kimura

P24 Brachial and Central Systolic Blood Pressures from Two Oscillometric Devices (Sphygmocor and Mobil-O-Graph) Overestimate High Fidelity Intra-Arterial Measurements in Children and Adolescents: Results of the Kidcorebp Study

Jonathan Mynard, Greta Goldsmith, Lucas Eastaugh, Geoff Lane, Gabriella Springall, Alberto Avolio, Joe Smolich, Michael Cheung

P25 24-Hour Aortic Ambulatory Blood Pressure is Better Associated with Common Carotid Artery Hypertrophy than 24-Hour Brachial Pressure — the Safar Study

Antonios Argyris, Evaggelia Aissopou, Efthymia Nasothymiou, Theodoros Papaioannou, Jacques Blacher, Michel Safar, Petros Sfikakis, Athanase Protogerou

P27 Invasive Central Pulse Pressure is Related to Aortic Root Dilatation

Francesco Tosello, Andrea Guala, Dario Leone, Martina Bollati, Luca Sabia, Fabrizio D’Ascenzo, Claudio Moretti, Franco Veglio, Luca Ridolfi, Alberto Milan

P29 Mechanisms of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Inhibition Induced Hypertension

Kaisa Maki-Petaja, Adam McGeoch, Lucy Yang, Annette Hubsch, Carmel McEniery, Fraz Mir, Parag Gajendragadkar, Nicola Ramenatte, Gayathri Anandappa, Christoph Brune, Yoeri Boink, Carola Bibiane-Schonlieb, Paul Meyer, Simon Bond, Ian Wilkinson, Duncan Jodrell, Joseph Cheriyan

P30 A 12-Week Exercise Training Program Reduces Endothelial Damage in Resistant Hypertension

Susana Lopes, Catarina Garcia, Ana Gonçalves, Ilda Ribeiro, Joana Barbosa de MElo, Veronica Ribau, Daniela Figueiredo, João Viana, Susana Bertoquini, Jorge Polónia, José Mesquita-Bsstos, Alberto Alves, Fernando Ribeiro

P31 Do Treatment Induced Changes in Arterial Stiffness Affect Left Ventricular Structure and Function? — a Meta-Analysis

Koen van der Waaij, Maarten Heusinkveld, Tammo Delhaas, Abraham Kroon, Koen Reesink

P32 Determining Cardiac and Arterial Contributions to Central Pulse Pressure

Samuel Vennin, Ye Li, Marie Willemet, Henry Fok, Haotian Gu, Peter Charlton, Jordi Alastruey, Phil Chowienczyk

P34 Determinants of Peripheral Wave Reflection in a Large Treated Hypertensive Population

Luiz Bortolotto, Eva Kosa, Nadja Mendes, Valeria Costa-Hong

P35 Arterial Stiffness and Chronic Stress: Role of Gender — Rigidità Arteriosa E Stress Cronico: Ruolo Del Genere

Rachele Gherardini

P36 Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) Responses to 3 Months of Yoga Poses and Respiratory Control (Ujjayi Pranayama) in Hypertensive Post Menopause Women: Randomized Clinical Trial

Cláudia Fetter, Bruna Eibel, Liliana Boll, Eduardo Barbosa, Maria Cláudia Irigoyen

P37 Pulse Wave Velocity: Dependence on Contemporaneous and Historical Blood Pressure Components

Louise Keehn, Marina Cecelja, Phil Chowienczyk

P38 Differences in Form Factor Calculated from Oscillometric or Waveform Mean Arterial Pressure

Chloe Park, Therese Tillin, Nish Chaturvedi, Alun Hughes

P39 Acute Responses of Pulse Wave Reflection after Aerobic Exercise with Different Volumes

Tainah Lima, Felipe Cunha, Walace Monteiro, Paulo Farinatti, Mário Neves

P41 Increased Stiffness in the Digital Arteries of Essential Hypertensive Women: The Fuchsia Study

Rosa Maria Bruno, Nicole Di Lascio, Saverio Vitali, Piercarlo Rossi, Rachele Gherardini, Stefano Taddei, Francesco Faita, Davide Caramella, Lorenzo Ghiadoni

P43 Masked Hypertension and Retinal Vessel Structure and Function in Young Healthy Adults: The African-Predict Study

Nthai Ramoshaba, Hugo Huisman, Leandi Lammertyn, Konstantin Kotliar, Aletta Schutte, Wayne Smith

P45 Impedance Cardiography Evaluation in Elderly Hypertensive Patients

Francisco Ferreira da Silva, Pedro Marques da Silva

P46 Elongation of the Proximal Aorta During the Cardiac Cycle Plays an Important Role in the Estimation of Aortic Compliance

Stamatia Pagoulatou, Mauro Ferraro, Bram Trachet, Vasiliki Bikia, Dionysios Adamopoulos, Nikolaos Stergiopulos

P47 Abnormal Flow Pattern in Marfan Patients is Related to Aortic Geometric Features: A 4D Flow MRI Study

Andrea Guala, Gisela Teixido-Tura, Jose Rodriguez-Palomares, Aroa Ruiz-Muñoz, David Garcia-Dorado, Artur Evangelista

P48 Comparison Between Invasive and Non-Invasive Methods: To Evaluate Aortic Stiffness by Pulse Wave Velocity

Andrea Grillo, Francesco Moretti, Filippo Scalise, Andrea Faini, Matteo Rovina, Lucia Salvi, Corrado Baldi, Giovanni Sorropago, Sandrine C. Millasseau, Renzo Carretta, Alberto P. Avolio, Paolo Salvi, Gianfranco Parati

P49 Quantifying Wave Reflection in Children: Invasive vs Non-Invasive Central Augmentation Index and Reflection Magnitude and Their Association with Left Ventricular Mass

Jonathan Mynard, Greta Goldsmith, Remi Kowalski, Lucas Eastaugh, Geoff Lane, Gabriella Springall, Joe Smolich, Alberto Avolio, Michael Cheung

P50 Validation of Ultrasound Determination of Local Pulse Wave Velocity in the Human Ascending Aorta Against Mri Measurements

Madalina Negoita, Charlotte Manisty, Anish Bhuva, Alun Hughes, Kim Parker, Ashraf Khir

P51 Non-Contact Measurement of Local Carotid and Carotid-Femoral Pulse Wave Velocity by Laser Doppler Vibrometry: Validation of a New Device Against Reference Techniques in Hypertensive Patients

Louise Marais, Soren Aasmul, Roel Baets, Mirko De Melis, Stephen E. Greenwald, Hakim Khettab, Yanlu Li, Frits Prinzen, Koen Reesink, Patrick Segers, Pierre Boutouyrie

P52 Estimating Central Blood Pressure from Mri Data using Reduced-Order Computational Models

Jorge Mariscal Harana, Peter H. Charlton, Samuel Vennin, Arna van Engelen, Torben Schneider, Mateusz Florkow, Hubrecht de Bliek, Bram Ruijsink, Israel Valverde, Marietta Charakida, Kuberan Pushparajah, Spencer Sherwin, Rene Botnar, Jordi Alastruey

P53 Zero Flow Pressure (Pinfinity) is Larger than Mean Circulatory Filling Pressure. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Alun Hughes, Kim Parker, Ashraf Khir

P54 A Machine Learning System for Carotid Plaque Vulnerability Assessment Based on Ultrasound Images

Nicole Di Lascio, Claudia Kusmic, Anna Solini, Vincenzo Lionetti, Francesco Faita

P55 Effects of Carotid Pressure Waveform Obtained in Different Ways on the Results of Wave Separation, Wave Intensity and Reservoir Pressure Analysis

Nicole Di Lascio, Vincenzo Gemignani, Rosa Maria Bruno, Elisabetta Bianchini, Martina Francesconi, Francesco Stea, Lorenzo Ghiadoni, Francesco Faita

P56 Central Pulse Pressure is Associated with Retinal Arteriolar Wall Thickness and Wall Cross Sectional Area as Evaluated by Adaptive Optics

Antonio Gallo, Thomas Dietenbeck, Nadjia Kachenoura, Valérie Carreau, Michel Paques, Xavier Girerd

P57 Polyphenols in Cocoa-Rich Chocolate Improve Vascular Function, the Ventricle—Arterial Coupling and Cognitive Performance of Young and Healthy Adults

Telmo Pereira, Jacqueline Bergqvist, Bente Sveälv, Joaquim Castanheira, Jorge Conde

P58 Single-Port Thoracoscopic Sympathicotomy for Treatment Resistant Raynaud’s Phenomenon: First Report of a Novel Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Technique

Anniek van Roon, Michiel Kuijpers, Saskia van de Zande, Arie van Roon, Massimo Mariani, Reinhard Bos, Hendrika Bootsma, Theo Klinkenberg, Andries Smit, Udo Mulder

P59 Know Your Vascular Age: A Feasibility Study on a New Service in Community Pharmacies

Sofia Maximiano, Patrícia Soares, Mariana Rosa, Ana Pinto, Maria Mendes, Joana Brito, Sonja Gose, Johannes Risse, Telmo Pereira, João Maldonado, Ema Paulino

P60 Influence of Anger on Endothelial Dysfunction in Patients with Recent Myocardial Infarction

Bruna Eibel, Alexandre Quadros, Karine Schmidt, Carlos Gottschall, Márcia Moura

P61 Arterial Stiffness is Associated with Aortic Valve Calcifications

Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, Vasiliki Gardikioti, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Konstantinos Toutouzas, Maria Xanthopoulou, Vasiliki Penesopoulou, Georgios Latsios, Vicky Tsigkou, Charalambos Kalantzis, Gerasimos Siasos, Manolis Vavuranakis, Dimitrios Tousoulis

P62 Dapagliflozin Preserves Renal Vasodilating Capacity in Hypertensive Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Rosa Maria Bruno, Livia Giannini, Angela Dardano, Edoardo Biancalana, Stefano Taddei, Lorenzo Ghiadoni, Anna Solini

P63 Modification of Sympathetic Tone by Renal Artery Denervation Causes Early, Significant and Sustained Arterial De-Stiffening

Andrius Berukstis, Gintare Neverauskaite-Piliponiene, Nerijus Misonis, Vytautas Juknevicius, Jurate Balsyte, Aleksandras Laucevicius

P65 Remote Ischaemic Preconditioning Reduces Kidney Injury in Vascular Surgery

Teele Kepler, Karl Kuusik, Urmas Lepner, Joel Starkopf, Mihkel Zilmer, Jaan Eha, Liisi Anette Torop, Jaak Kals

P66 Reduction in Augmentation Pressure is Associated with Improvement of Early Ventricular Ejection after Aortic Valve Replacement

Haotian Gu, Ronak Rajani, Phil Chowienczyk

P67 Unreliable Pulse Wave Velocity Values Provided by Algorithm-Based Device: A Study in Marfan Syndrome

Giulia Furlanis, Paolo Salvi, Andrea Grillo, Lucia Salvi, Inês Pintassilgo, Elisabetta Bungaro, Raffaella Gaetano, Susan Marelli, Renzo Carretta, Alessandro Pini, Gianfranco Parati

P68 The Hidden Predictor of Cardiovascular Outcome

José Sousa, João Lopes, Liliana Reis, Marta Madeira, Carolina Lourenço, Lino Gonçalves

P69 Relationship Between Carotid Intima-Media Thickness, Endothelial Function, Aortic Stiffness and Cardiovascular Events Among Metabolic Syndrome Subjects

Ligita Ryliškytė, Rokas Navickas, Roma Puronaitė, Agnė Jucevičienė, Aleksandras Laucevičius

P70 Finger-Toe Pulse Wave Velocity (FTPWV) Measured by Popmètre® Device in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis

Guillermo Alanis-Sánchez, Carlos Ramos-Becerra, Ernesto Cardona-Muñóz, Diego Castañeda-Zaragoza, David Cardona-Muller, Hakim Khettab, Stephen Laurent, Pierre Boutouyrie, Hasan Obeid, Magid Hallab, Valeria Diaz-Rizo

P71 Troponin Increase and Subendocardial Oxygen Supply and Demand Imbalance in Cardiac Amyloidosis

Lucia Salvi, Paolo Salvi, Andrea Grillo, Gianfranco Parati, Francesco Banfi, Stefano Perlini

P72 Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity in Patients with Copd: 5-Year Data from the Arcade Study

Nichola Gale, Mahfoudha Al Shezawi, Maggie Munnery, Barry Mcdonnell, John Cockcroft

P73 Aortic but not Peripheral Pulse Wave Velocity is Improved after Heart Rate Targeted Aerobic Physical Training in Metabolic Syndrome Subjects

Ieva Slivovskaja, Jurate Balsyte, Ligita Ryliskyte, Jolita Badariene, Rokas Navickas, Aleksandras Laucevicius

P74 Sleep Quality is Associated with Cerebrovascular Function in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis

Georgios Grigoriadis, Alexander J. Rosenberg, Sang Ouk Wee, Elizabeth C. Schroeder, Garett Griffith, Tracy Baynard

P75 Differential Elastin Degradation and Micromechanical Properties in Ascending Aortic Aneurysm Groups: Statistical Modelling

Ya Hua Chim, Hannah Davies, Francesco Diaz De la O, Mark Field, Jill Madine, Riaz Akhtar

P76 Carotid Thermal Heterogeneity and Dyslipidemia: The Heat is on

Iosif Koutagiar, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, Ioannis Skoumas, Evangelia Sigala, Vasiliki Gardikioti, Stavroula Pantou, Angeliki Rigatou, Nikolaos Ioakeimidis, Christos Georgakopoulos, Nikitas-Alexandros Skliros, Georgios Benetos, Spiros Galanakos, Dimitrios Tousoulis

P77 Targeted Lipidomics of Arterial Stiffness and Hemodynamics in Atherosclerosis

Kaido Paapstel, Jaak Kals, Jaan Eha, Kaspar Tootsi, Aigar Ottas, Anneli Piir, Mihkel Zilmer

P78 Pressure-Independent Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in the Regulation of Arterial Stiffness in Subjects with Essential Hypertension

Luca Faconti, Bushra Farukh, Philip J. Chowienczyk

P79 Aortic Viscoelastic Properties and Altered Electromechanical Cardio-Aortic Connection in Patients with Cardiac Amyloidosis

Lucia Salvi, Paolo Salvi, Andrea Grillo, Stefano Perlini, Gianfranco Parati

P80 Analysis of Endothelial Function in Male Students in Southern Brazil: The Role of Physical Activity

Marcos Paulo Camboim, Bruna Eibel, Lucia Pallanda, Salvador Neto, Gustavo Waclawovsky, Vitor Kunrath

P82 Reduction in Endothelial, but not Microvascular, Function During Acute Inflammation: Preliminary Results

Elizabeth Schroeder, Thessa Hilgenkamp, Tracy Baynard, Bo Fernhall

P83 Different Protocols for Early Cardiac Rehabilitation Modulate the Vascular Function of Individuals Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Randomized Clinical Trial

Bruna Eibel, Gustavo Waclawovsky, Liliana Boll, Eduardo Barbosa, Maria Cláudia Irigoyen, Alexandre Lehnen

P84 Relationship of Arterial Stiffness and Ankle-Brachial Index

Gabriel Dimitrov, Giovanni Scandale, Gianni Carzaniga, Martino Recchia, Marzio Minola, Edoardo Perilli, Maria Carotta, Mariella Catalano

P85 Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Risk of Incident Stroke, Dementia and Depression, and All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Sytze Rensma, Thomas van Sloten, Lenore Launer, Coen Stehouwer

P86 Blunted Cerebral Microcirculation Oxygenation During Exercise in Newly Diagnosed Hypertensive Patients: Links with Indices of Macrocirculation and Arterial Stiffness

Areti Triantafyllou, Konstantina Dipla, Nikolaos Koletsos, Alexandros-Savvas Zafeiridis, Stauros Papadopoulos, Iris Grigoriadou, Eugenia Gkaliagkousi, Andreas Zafeiridis, Stella Douma

P87 Cerebrovascular Reactivity During Cognitive Activation in Adults with Controlled Hypertension

Wesley Lefferts, Jacob DeBlois, Tiago Barreira, Kevin Heffernan

P88 Central Pressure in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke in Acute Phase: A Pilot Study

David Paiva, Ana Costa, Ana Luisa Campos, Filipa Goncçalves, Pedro Cunha, Jorge Cotter

P89 3 Hours Uninterrupted Sitting Increases Cerebrovascular Resistance and Reduces Cerebral Blood Flow in Subjects with Increased Cardiovascular Risk

Yvonne Hartman

P90 Kinetic Energy and Energy Loss in the Middle Cerebral Artery (MCA) of Heartmate II Patients

Koichi Akiyama, Ruiping Ji, Autumn Clemons, Francesco Castagna, Alberto Pinsino, John R. Cockcroft, Melana Yuzefpolsakaya, Reshad Garan, Hiroo Takayama, Koji Takeda, Yoshifumi Naka, Veli Topkara, Joshua Willey, Barry J. McDonnell, Paolo Colombo, Eric Stöhr

P91 The Effects of Device-Guided Paced Breathing on Arterial Stiffness: Impact of the Autonomic Nervous System

Bushra Farukh, Luca Faconti, Phil J. Chowienczyk

P92 Parameters for Central Blood Pressure as Predictors for the Early Clinical and Functional Outcome after Stroke

Katrin Holzhauser

P93 Relationship Between Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity and Mid Cerebral Artery Pulsatility Index in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Pilot Data from the Arcade Study

Mahfoudha Al Shezawi, John Cockcroft, Maggie Munnery, laura Watkeys, Nichola Gale, Barry McDonnell

P94 Evaluating Central Pressure in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke in Acute Phase: Prognosis and Outcome

Ana Costa, David Paiva, Filipa Goncçalves, Ana Campos, Pedro Cunha, Jorge Cotter

P95 Blood Pressure Variability, Arterial Stiffness and Arterial Remodeling — the Maastricht Study

Tan Lai Zhou, Ronald Henry, Coen Stehouwer, Thomas van Sloten, Koen Reesink, Abraham Kroon

P96 Association of Metabolic Syndrome and its Components with Arterial Stiffness in General Population of the Eva Study

Cristina Agudo-Conde, Leticia Gomez-Sanchez, Marta Gomez-Sanchez, Rosario Alonso-Domínguez, Natalia Sánchez-Aguadero, Cristina Lugones-Sánchez, Jesus Gonzalez-Sanchez, Sara Mora-Simon, Jose I. Recio-Rodriguez

P97 Family Patterns of Central Haemodynamics Across Three Generations in the Malmö Offspring Study

Peter Nilsson, Erik Petersson Rosberg

P98 Age and Gender Differences iVariability of Wave Reflections Over 24 Hours: The International 24-Hour Ambulatory Aortic Blood Pressure Consortium (124ABC)

Thomas Weber, Siegfired Wasserheurer, James Sharman, Cristina Giannatasio, Piotr Jankowski, Yan Li, Alessandro Maloberti, Barry Mcdonnell, Carmel McEniery, Maria Lorenza Muisan, Janos Nemcsik, Anna Paini, Enrique Rodilla, Ian Wilkinson, Robert Zweiker, Athanase Protogerou

P99 Study on the Prevalence and Determinants of Early Vascular Ageing in a Community Pharmacy Setting — Preliminary Results: From the asinphar@2action (Arterial Stiffness in the Pharmacies to (2) Action) Project

Telmo Pereira, Ema Paulino, Mariana Rosa, Ana Pinto, Maria Teixeira, Patrícia Soares, Sofia Maximiano, Johannes Risse, Sonja Gose

P100 The Association Between Dairy Products Consumption and Arterial Stiffness: A Meta-Analysis

Celia Álvarez-Bueno, Iván Cavero-Redondo, Alba Soriano-Cano, Diana P. Pozuelo-Carrascosa, Blanca Notario-Pacheco, Estela Jimenez-Lopez

P101 Reference Values of Different Parameters of Vascular Function in Caucasian Population without Cardiovascular Diseases. Eva Study

Marta Gomez-Sanchez, Leticia Gomez-Sanchez, Gristina Lugones-Sanchez, Jesus Gonzalez-Sanchez, Rosario Alonso-Dominguez, Jose I. Recio-Rodriguez, Olaya Tamayo-Morales, Manuel A. Gomez-Marcos

P102 Withdrawn by Author

P103 Reference Values in a Representative Sample for a Certain Country

Pedro Forcada, Carlos Castellaro, Sergio Gonzalez, Carol Kotliar, Sebastian Obregon, Jorge Chiabaut Svane

P104 Influence of Age and Gender on 24-Hour Variability of Central Blood Pressure: Findings from the International 24-Hour Ambulatory Aortic Blood Pressure Consortium (I24ABC)

Thomas Weber, Athanase Protogerou, Siegfried Wassertheurer, Cristina Giannatasio, Piotr Jankowski, Yan Li, Alessandro Maloberti, Barry McDonnell, Carmel McEniery, Maria Lorenza Muiesan, Janos Nemcsik, Anna Paini, Enrique Rodilla, Ian Wilkinson, Robert Zweiker, James Sharman

P105 Pulse Pressure Amplification and Physical Activity in Young Black and White Adults: The African-Predict Study

Johannes van Rooyen, Anika Kaufman, Wayne Smith, Yolandi Breet

P106 Relationship Between Central Pulse Pressure and Urinary Sodium Excretion in a Population-Based Study in Salvador, Brazil, Preliminary Results

Lucelia Magalhaes, Daniele Brustolim, Diorlene Da Silva, Rodrigo Lima, Antonio Filho, Roberta Cunha, Jamile Gomes, Raquel Dantas

P107 Renal Denervation Improves 24-Hour Central and Peripheral Blood Pressures, Arterial Stiffness and Peripheral Resistance

Christian Ott, Klaas Franzen, Tobias Graf, Joachim Weil, Roland Schmieder, Michael Reppel, Kai Mortensen

P108 Anatomic Variations of Renal Arteries in Patients with Essential Hypertension: A Retrospective Study

Jorge Lourenço, Joao Cabral, Daniela Marado, Armando Carvalho

P109 Reservoir-Excess Pressure Characteristics Help Identify People with High Intra-Arterial Aortic Systolic Blood Pressure

Elif Stoneman, Dean Picone, Martin Schultz, Matthew Armstrong, Andrew Black, Nathan Dwyer, Philip Roberts-Thomson, James Sharman

P110 Acute Effect of Aerobic, Resistance, and Combined Exercise on Blood Pressure and Vascular Resistance of Hypertensive Patients: Randomized Clinical Trial

Gustavo Waclawovsky, Bruna Eibel, Liliana Boll, Maximiliano Schaun, Eduardo Barbosa, Alexandre Lehnen

P111 Discrepancy Between Brachial and Invasive Intra-Aortic Pressures in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization

Azra Mahmud, Ali Allghamdi, Mohammad Balghith, Kamal Ayoub, Mohammad Fayaz Khan, Samir AlChighouri, Fawaz AlMutairi, Muayad AlZaibag

P112 Effect of Different Types of Physical Training on the Function Endothelial in Hypertensive Individuals

Marinei Pedralli, Rafael Marschner, Eduardo Barbosa, Bruna Eibel, Alexandre Lehnen

P113 Diurnal Rhythm of Central Blood Pressure During Twenty-Four-Hour Ambulatory Monitoring

Bela Benczur

P114 Application and Replicability of Bilateral and Simultaneous Multiple Arterial Bloodpressure Measurements in Sedentary and Physically Active Professions

Eric de Groot

P115 Leukocyte Telomere Length and its Relation to Nitric Oxide Metabolites in a BI-Ethnic Sample: The Sabpa Study

Hugo W. Huisman, Jan-Hendrik Combrink, Carina Mels, Aletta Schutte

P116 Cardiac Output is Increased in Young People with Elevated BP

Chiara Nardin, Kaisa Maki-Petaja, Yasmin Yasmin, Barry McDonnell, John R. Cockcroft, Ian B. Wilkinson, Carmel M. McEniery

P117 Arterial Stiffness, Carotid Remodeling and other Risk Factors Determining Coronary Artery Disease in Hypertensive Patients

Luiz Bortolotto, Nadja Mendes, Valeria Costa-Hong, Luiz Cesar

P118 CXCL13 as a Novel Potential Biomarker of Essential Hypertension

Yanina Timasheva, Vera Erdman, Timur Nasibullin, Ilsiyar Tuktarova, Olga Mustafina

P119 LDL Cholesterol is Associated with Systemic Vascular Resistance and Wave Reflection in Subjects not Using Medications with Haemodynamic Influences

Manoj Kumar Choudhary, Arttu Eräranta, Antti J. Tikkakoski, Jenni Koskela, Elina Hautaniemi, Mika Kähönen, Jukka Mustonen, Ilkka Pörsti

P120 Determinants of Brachial-Ankle Pulse Wave Velocity

Renata Bocskei, Bela Benczur, Attila Cziraki

P121 Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness with Arterial Stiffness and Peripheral and Central Blood Pressure in Resistant Hypertension Patients

Catarina Garcia, Susana Lopes, Susana Bertoquini, Verónica Ribau, Cátia Leitão, Daniela Figueiredo, Ilda P Ribeiro, Joana Barbosa de Melo, João L Viana, José Mesquita-Bastos, Jorge Polónia, Fernando Ribeiro, Alberto J Alves

P122 The Arterial Stiffness Dynamics Under the Effect of Rosuvastatin Added to Different Combinations of Antihypertensive Drugs

Olga Fedorishina, Konstantin Protasov, Anna Torunova, Nina Scherbakova, Natalia Petronchak

P123 Unattended and Attended BP Values and Vasculare and Cardiac Organ Damage

Anna Paini, Massimo Salvetti, Fabio Bertacchini, Carlo Aggiusti, Sara Cappellini, Enrico Agabiti Rosei, Maria Lorenza Muiesan

P124 Central Blood Pressure Measurement: Paradigm Shift

Gilberto Campos Guimarães Filho, Weimar Kunz Sebba Barroso Sousa

P125 Estimation of Mean Arterial Pressure in Non-Invasive Studies

Chloe Park, Therese Tillin, Nish Chaturvedi, Alun Hughes

P126 The Association of the Integrated Central Pressure-Stiffness Risk Score with Cardiovascular Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients

János Nemcsik, Dóra Batta, Ádám Tabák, Beáta Kőrösi, Orsolya Cseprekál, András Tislér

P127 Spatial Variation of Reservoir Pressure in Children Assessed with High Fidelity Pressure Measurement in Five Aortic Locations

Jonathan Mynard, Lucas Eastaugh, Geoff Lane, Greta Goldsmith, Gabriella Springall, Alberto Avolio, Joe Smolich, Michael Cheung

P128 Radial Intima-Media Thickness Assessment by Ultra-High Frequency Ultrasound and Automated Image-Analysis in Healthy Volunteers

Nicole Di Lascio, Rosa Maria Bruno, Saverio Vitali, Davide Caramella

P129 Determination of the Diastolic Pressure Decay Constant (tau) from Radial Tonometry: Demographic and Hemodynamic Associations in Normal and Hypertensive Individuals

Joseph Izzo, Sherif El-sayed, Rahil Ahmed, Peter Osmond, Benjamin Gavish

P130 Comparison Between PWV Measured from Cutaneous Length by Sphygmocor and by MRI Length Traced Along the whole Aorta

Marina Cecelja

P131 Uterine Arteries Evaluation During Pregnancy: Modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics Calculations

Andreia Serrano, Vanessa Cunha, Jorge Teixeira, Maria Pires, João O’Neill, Valentina Vassilenko

P132 Continuous Measurements of Central Blood Pressure During Mental Stress Monitoring

Valentina Vassilenko, Andreia Serrano, Paulo Bonifacio, Peter Roth, Viktor Fetter

P134 A Computational Investigation of Confounding Factors Affecting Flow Mediated Dilation: Towards Improved Endothelial Function Assessment

Weiwei Jin, Phil Chowienczyk, Jordi Alastruey

P135 Systemic Cardiovascular Inputs in Models Estimating Intracranial Pressure Magnitude and Waveform

Julio A. Lara-Hernández, Isabella Tan, Mark Butlin, Alberto P. Avolio

P136 Simulating Myocardial Oxygen Balance Changes Due to Anti-Hypertensive Drugs

Andrea Guala, Dario Leone, Francesco Tosello, Alberto Milan, Luca Ridolfi

P137 Estimating Left Ventricular Elastance from Noninvasive Aortic Flow and Brachial Pressure Measurements

Stamatia Pagoulatou, Nikolaos Stergiopulos

P138 Influence of Ultrasound Settings on Carotid Biomarker Assessment by B-Mode Image Processing

Martina Francesconi, Vincenzo Gemignani, Rachele Gherardini, Nicole Di Lascio, Francesco Faita, Lorenzo Ghiadoni, Rosa Maria Bruno, Elisabetta Bianchini

P139 Automatic Classification of Arterial and Venular Trees in Colour Fundus Images

M. E. ena Martinez-Perez, Kim Parker, Nick Witt, S. A. McG. Thom, Alun Hughes

P140 Arterial Wave Dynamics in the Horse: Insights Obtained from A 1D Arterial Network Model Simulation

Daimé Campos Arias, Lisse Vera, Sofie Muylle, Nikos Stergiopulos, Gunther van Loon, Patrick Segers

P141 Telomere Dynamics Relation with Obesity

Simon Toupance, Mirna Chahine, Irini Tzanetakou, Carlos Labat, Sylvie Gautier, Cécilé Lakomy, Pascal Rossi, Toufic Moussallem, Pierre Yared, Didier Quilliot, Evangelos Menenakos, Roland Asmar, Athanase Benetos

P142 Early Vascular Parameters in the Micro- and Macrocirculation in Type 2 Diabetes

Christian Ott, Dennis Kannenkeril, Marina Karg, Agnes Bosch, Joanna Harazny, Roland Schmieder

P143 Reduced Levels of Anti-Ageing Hormone Klotho are Associated with Increased Aortic Stiffness in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Nikolaos Fountoulakis, Giuseppe Maltese, Luigi Gnudi, Janaka Karalliedde

P144 Impact of Anti-Hypertensive Drugs on Aortic Stiffness Induced by Chronic Kidney Disease and Mineral Bone Disorder in Rats

Mohsen Agharazii, Roth-Visal Ung, Sarah-Kim Bisson, Fabrice Mac-Way, Darren E. Richard, Richard Larivière

P145 Arterial Stiffness and Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: Longitudinal Study

Svetlana Solovjova, Ligita Ryliskyte, Roma Puronaite, Jelena Celutkiene, Aleksandras Laucevicius, Jolita Badariene, Ieva Slivovskaja, Egidija Rinkuniene

P146 Analysis of Renal Artery Revascularization in a Tertiary Care Centre

Pedro Marques, Flores Luís, André Carvalho, Joel Sousa, Patrícia Lourenço, Jorge Almeida

P147 Associations Between Reservoir Pressure Parameters and Kidney Function are Dependent on the Arterial Measurement Site

Matthew Armstrong, Dean Picone, Martin Schultz, James Sharman, Nathan Dwyer, Philip Roberts-Thomson, Andrew Black

P148 Anthropometric Measures in Intermittent Claudication and Critical Limb Ischemia

Joana Ferreira, Jacinta Campos

P149 Low Carotid Arterial Stiffness in Young Type1 Diabetic Patients Compared with Age-Matched Controls

Alessandro Giudici, Carlo Palombo, Carmela Morizzo, Michaela Kozakova, Lorenzo Losso, Kennedy J. Cruickshank, Ashraf W. Khir

P150 The Impact of Arterial Stiffness on Troponin T Levels in Chronic Haemodialysis Patients

Christian Daugaard Peters, Krista Dybtved Kjærgaard, Bente Jespersen, Kent Lodberg Christensen, Jens Dam Jensen

P151 Arterial Stiffness Response to Acute Aerobic and Resistance Exercise in Older Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

Vanessa Santos, Rafaela Netas, Mariana Borges, Xavier Melo, Rita Pinto, Vitor Angarten, Fernhall, Helena Santa-Clara

P152 The Effect of Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement on Aortic Stiffness and the Prognostic Role of Aortic Stiffness on Surgical Success

Evangelia Sigala, Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Konstantinos Triantafillou, Nikolaos Koumallos, Andreas Katsaros, Vasilios Lozos, Ilias Kouerinis, Nikolaos Giakis, Michael Demosthenous, Konstantinos Filis, Dimitrios Tousoulis

P153 Pulse Wave Velocity Distribution in Children at a School in the North of Portugal

Mariana Formigo, Cristina Silva, Nuno Formigo, Sara Freitas, Cristina Cunha, Margarida Rocha, Clarisse Neves, Laura Castro, Filipe Goncçalves, Maria J. Cotter, Pedro G. Cunha, Jorge Cotter

P154 Does the Method of the Measurement of Blood Pressure Correlates Differently with Pulse Wave Velocity in Resistant Hypertension?

Jose Mesquita Bastos, Susana Lopes, Catarina Garcia, Verónica Ribau, Susana Bertoquini, Cátia Leitão, P. Ribeiro Ilda, Daniela Figueiredo, L. Viana João, Fernando Ribeiro, Jorge Polónia

P155 Determinants of Pulse Wave Velocity in Children

Cristina Silva, Mariana Formigo, Nuno Formigo, Sara Freitas, Cristina Cunha, Margarida Rocha, Clarisse Neves, Laura Castro, Filipe Gonçalves, Maria J. Cotter, Pedro G. Cunha, Jorge Cotter

P156 Cardio Ankle Vascular Index (CAVI) as Arterial Stiffness Marker in Subjects eith Ankylosing Spondylitis

Guillermo Alanis-Sánchez, Ernesto Cardona-Muñoz, David Cardona-Müller, Sylvia Totsuka-Sutto, Oscar Mares-Flores, César Murguia-Soto, Diego Castañeda-Zaragoza, David Montes-Martínez, Carlos Ramos-Becerra

P157 Aortic Calcifications and Inflammation are Associated with Inhospital Complications in Acute Coronary Syndrome

Konstantia-Paraskevi Gkini, Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Iosif Koutagiar, Angeliki Rigatou, Stavroula Pantou, Christos Georgakopoulos, Dimitrios Tousoulis

P158 Arterial Stiffness in the Very Old: The aga@4life Research Project

Telmo Pereira

P159 Correlation Between Inflammatory State and Arterial Stiffness

Daniele Brustolim, Lucelia Magalhaes, Diorlene Silva, Rodrigo Sant’Ana de Lima, Vinicius Louzada Castro, Daniel Malta Ribeiro, Caroline Rodrigues Fidelman, Natalia Damasceno, Larissa Vasconcelos, Caroline Ventura, Vascor Group

P160 Assessment of Carotid Pulse Wave Velocity (CARPWV) in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis

Guillermo Alanis-Sánchez, Carlos Ramos-Becerra, David Cardona-Müller, Patricia Quezada-Fernández, Sara Pascoe-González, César Murguia-Soto, Ernesto Cardona-Muñoz

P161 Relationship of Fibrinogen with Arterial Stiffness is Different According to Gender. EVA Study

Leticia Gomez-Sanchez, Marta Gomez-Sanchez, Natalia Sanchez-Aguadero, Cristina Lugones-Sanchez, Maria C. Patino-Alonso, Sara Mora-Simon, Jose A. Maderuelo-Fernandez, Emiliano Rodriguez-Sanchez

P162 Arterial Stiffness and Body Composition in Children and Adolescents

Tommy Cai, Alice Meroni, Hasthi Dissanayake, Melinda Phang, Ahmad Qasem, Julian Ayer, Mark Butlin, Alberto Avolio, David Celermajer, Michael Skilton

P163 Regional Differences in Geometrical Features and Layer-Specific Residual Stresses in the Bovine Descending Thoracic Aorta

Alessandro Giudici, Ian B. Wilkinson, Ashraf W. Khir

P164 Indices to Assess Aortic Stiffness from the Finger Photoplethysmogram: In Silico and in Vivo Testing

Peter Charlton, Maria Aresu, Jeanette Spear, Phil Chowienczyk, Jordi Alastruey

P165 Evaluating Carotid Femoral Pulse Wave Velocity Measured by Cuff-Based Approach Against the Tonometry-Based Reference Standard in a Paediatric Population

Tommy Cai, Alice Meroni, Hasthi Dissanayake, Melinda Phang, Alberto Avolio, David Celermajer, Mark Butlin, Michael Skilton, Ahmad Qasem

P166 Aortic Pulsatility, and not Mean Arterial Pressure, is an Independent Determinant of Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

Azra Mahmud, Ali AlGhamdi, Mohamamd Balghith, Kamal Ayoub, Mohammad Fayaz Khan, Samir Al-Chighouri, Fawaz AlMutairi, Muayed AlZaibag

P167 Acute Exercise Effects on Vascular and Autonomic Function in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease

Vitor Angarten, Rita Pinto, Vanessa Santos, Xavier Melo, Paula Sousa, Jose Carlos Machado, Helena Santa Clara

P168 Feasibility Study of Local Pulse Wave Velocity Estimation in the Carotid Artery with Multi-Beam Laser Doppler Vibrometer

Daniela Tommasin, Yanlu Li, Jonathan Reeves, Roel Baets, Steve Greenwald, Patrick Segers

P169 Relationship Between Common Carotid Distensibility/Aortic Stiffness and Left Ventricular Morphology and Function in Rheumatologic Patients

Michele Bevilacqua, Andrea Dalbeni, Angela Tagetti, Luca Gomarasca, Giovanni Orsolini, Andrea Giollo, Maurizio Rossini, Ombretta Viapiana, Giovanni Cioffi, Pietro Minuz, Cristiano Fava

P170 A Forehead and Nasal Bridge Pulse Oximeter Comparison Measurements on Healthy Subjects

Matti Huotari, Juha Röning, Kari Määttä

P171 Cardiovascular Risk Evaluation in Behcet’s Patients — the Role of Chronic Inflammation in Arterial Stiffness

Maria Guimarães, Glória Alves, Cristina Cunha, Marta Cunha

P172 Role of Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle in Macrovascular Atherosclerotic Occlusive Disease-Peripheral Arterial Disease and Carotid Artery Disease

Joana Ferreira

Reviewer Acknowledgement 2018

Final Issue of Artery Research

John Cockcroft