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To: Lane3 who wrote (7892)12/24/2009 8:10:15 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 39297
 
don't shoot the messenger.

the message seems intuitively correct but of course I am no scientist.

but I am loose as a goose so I believe it to be so..merry xmas



To: Lane3 who wrote (7892)12/28/2009 2:18:25 PM
From: Archie Meeties  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 39297
 
You'd have to look at the original study, but pulse pressure is a generally accepted proxy for arterial stiffness. It's also an independent risk factor for cv disease and probably more useful than bp alone.