Artery Research
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 2-12 , June 2007

Abridged version of the expert consensus document on arterial stiffness

  • Stephane Laurent

      Affiliations

    • Université Paris-Descartes, Faculté de Médecine, INSERM U 652, Department of Pharmacology and Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +33 1 56 09 39 91; fax: +33 1 56 09 39 92.
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  • John Cockcroft

      Affiliations

    • University of Wales, Cardiology Department, Cardiff, UK
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  • Luc Van Bortel

      Affiliations

    • University of Ghent, Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, Ghent, Belgium
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  • Pierre Boutouyrie

      Affiliations

    • Université Paris-Descartes, Faculté de Médecine, INSERM U 652, Department of Pharmacology and Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France
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  • Cristina Giannattasio

      Affiliations

    • Milano-Bicocca University, Department of Internal Medicine, Monza, Italy
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  • Daniel Hayoz

      Affiliations

    • Service of Angiology, CHUV, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Bruno Pannier

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nephrology, Manhes Hospital, Fleury-Merogis, France
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  • Charalambos Vlachopoulos

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular and Sexual Health Unit, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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  • Ian Wilkinson

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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  • Harry Struijker-Boudier

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • on behalf of the European Network for Non Invasive Investigation of Large Arteries

Received 28 February 2007 ,Accepted 22 March 2007.

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☆ The full text of this article was originally published in Eur. Heart j. 27(21) November 2006, pp 2588–2605 and this abridged version is published by kind permission of the European Society of Cardiology.

PII: S1872-9312(07)00004-X

doi: 10.1016/j.artres.2007.03.003

Artery Research
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 2-12 , June 2007

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