title: [Relationship between pulse pressure and atherosclerotic renal artery].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the relationship between the pulse pressure (PP) and atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS) in middle-age and eldery paients with hyperensio, so as to provide the basis for the diagnosis and treatment of ARAS.
  
  
  METHODS
  We tetro spectively analyzed the data of 257 patients with hypertension undergoing renal arteriography at General Hospital of PLA between 2009 and 2014. Their mean age was (64.09 +/- 7.81) years. According the results of arteriography, they were divided into two groups: ARAS group (n = 145), and non-ARAS group (n = 112). Their PP and multinomial clinical indexes with ARAS were statistically analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Single factor correlation and Logisitic analysis showed that age, PP, serum creatinine (SCr) levels, and new onset of hypertension after 50 years of age were strongly positively related to ARAS. The age and PP and SCr was a team of continuous variable.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  PP was the first new risk factor of ARAS in middile-aged and elderly patients with hypertension. It is suggested that PP may be a early predictive indicator and a new therapeutic target for ARAS.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Yu-xiu
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.lastname: Liu Hong-bin
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001794:Blood Pressure; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension; D008875:Middle Aged; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction; D012307:Risk Factors