Old age, obesity, hypertension, and hypertriglyceridemia are well-known predictors of type 2 diabetes. There’s now an addition to the list– arterial stiffness (AS) . A recent cohort study, conducted in a community in China, evaluated the efficiency of arterial stiffness in predicting an individual's risk of type 2 diabetes. This ‘ Journal Watch ’ summarizes this study titled “Hypertension, Arterial Stiffness, and Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study,” published in Hypertension , 2022 . Authors: Xue Tian et al.
What was the need for the study? Arterial stiffness is common among patients with hypertension, and studies have also reported AS to be associated with the risk of insulin resistance and diabetes. AS is also known to be superior to blood pressure in predicting future cognitive decline, end organ damage, and cardiovascular events. However, prior to the current study, it wasn’t…
