Analysis of Age-Pulse Pressure Relationship in Healthy and Non-Treated Hypertensive Subjects of an Argentinean Population

Reported researches emphasizes that increases in pulse pressure (PP) are correlated to arterial stiffness augmentation determined by aging or systemic hypertension. These findings are supported by evidence derived from large cohort analysis performed in well-known populations such as that of the Framingham Study. In this research an analysis, performed in 2077 volunteers, being 1778 normotensives and 299 hypertensive untreated subject, is reported. Both in normotensive and hypertensive non-treated volunteers, PP showed a curvilinear change with respect to age levels and a lack of parallelism with arterial stiffness evaluated through carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity measurement.