Abstract

To the Editor: We read with interest the recent article from the Conduit Artery Function Evaluation (CAFE) investigators1 on estimated central aortic blood pressure. The use of central arterial waveforms and estimates of central pressures in routine clinical practice would be justified if such measures materially add to the prognostic information provided by “routine” blood pressure measures, most usually obtained from brachial artery sphygmomanometry. The results from CAFE confirm our own recent findings from a substudy of The Australian National Blood Pressure Study 2 (ANBP2) 2 showing that this is not the …

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