title: [Arterial bed stiffness in patients with different cardiovascular risk factors].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the specific features of changes in the arterial wall stiffness (AWS) parameters obtained by sphygmomanometry in patients with different risk factors (RFs) for cardiovascular events (CVEs).
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 208 mining enterprise workers who had cardiovascular RFs, such as hypertension, abdominal obesity, and smoking, were examined. A comparison group consisted of 75 workers of this enterprise who had no these RFs. AWS was examined using a VaSera VS-1500 (Fukuda Denshi, Japan) to determine CAVI, ABI, UT, %МАР, AI, tb, and tba.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The group of patients with a combination of RFs versus the comparison group showed a statistically significant prevalence of virtually all sphygmomanometric indices characterizing AWS, which is suggestive of a less favorable long-term prognosis in this category of patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The patients having abnormal AWS parameters should be included in a group at risk for cardiovascular diseases and CVEs and their existing RFs be further assessed in detail for a preventive purpose. It is appropriate to incorporate volumetric sphygmomanometry in screening examination programs.
authors.affiliation: Federal Research Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies, Center for Occupational Medicine and Pathology, Perm, Russia.
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Nosov
authors.affiliation: Federal Research Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies, Center for Occupational Medicine and Pathology, Perm, Russia.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Baydina
authors.affiliation: Federal Research Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies, Center for Occupational Medicine and Pathology, Perm, Russia.
authors.forename: Yu A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Ivashova
authors.affiliation: Federal Research Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies, Center for Occupational Medicine and Pathology, Perm, Russia.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Vlasova
authors.affiliation: Federal Research Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies, Center for Occupational Medicine and Pathology, Perm, Russia.
authors.forename: V B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Alekseev
mesh_terms: D001158:Arteries; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension; D012307:Risk Factors; D059289:Vascular Stiffness