CEU-UCH professor Rodilla Sala discovers that stiff artery walls cause high blood pressure instead of being its consequence

Artery, the Association for Research into Arterial Structure and Physiology, at its last international congress, organized in Maastricht, awarded the investigation led by Enrique Rodilla with the second prize. The stiffness of the arterial wall can be determined through the pulse wave velocity, which can be measured by use of an applanation tonometer. Rodilla, who is a medical professor at the Castellón campus of CEU-UCH Cardenal Herrera University, and his team discovered that this stiffness has predictive value for the development of hypertension. This suggests that arterial stiffness, instead of being a consequence of high blood pressure, might be its cause. Stiffness of the arterial walls can, in other words, be the best predictor of this pathology.

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