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High cardiovascular risk in mixed connective tissue disease: evaluation of macrovascular involvement and its predictors by aortic pulse wave velocity.

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2019

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Konstantinos Triantafyllias, M. De Blasi, Freya Lütgendorf, Lorenzo Cavagna, Marco Stortz, Julia Weinmann‐Menke, Stavros Konstantinides, Peter R. Galle, Andreas Schwarting
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Abstract

Patients with MCTD have significantly higher aortic stiffness and thus CV risk in comparison to controls. Except for the disease itself, age and blood pressure were the main predictors of cfPWV.