Adult Romanian hypertensive patients are at
a high and very high 10-year risk of fatal
CV events, requiring prompt and adequate
therapeutic intervention in order to decrease
their CV morbi-mortality, stressing the need for
an accurate CV risk assessment.
Based on the results of this study, increased
SBP variability, aortic pulse wave velocity, revers
time, central (aortic) systolic blood pressure,
and atherogenic index of plasma have an
additive value for CV risk assessment above
SCORE.
The prediction model including above
mentioned 5 predictors has an 84.7% power of
correctly predicting the membership of hypertensive
subjects to high and very high risk category
and requires validation in prospective
fashion.
Conflict of interest: none declared.
Financial support: This paper is supported
by the Sectoral Operational Programme Human
Resources Development (SOP HRD) 2007-
2013, financed from the European Social Fund
and by the Romanian Government [POSDRU
/107/1.5/S/82839 to O.T.]
SEPHAR II survey was realized with financial
support from Romanian Society of Hypertension
and from SERVIER PHARMA – Romanian
Branch.
Aknowledgments: The first author (Oana
Tautu) would like to thank Romanian Society of
Hypertension’s board for grating me the permission
to access the data collected in SEPHAR II
survey and to use them in order to achieve the
related PhD research topic, as a member of the
study coordination team, with active participation
in study protocol development, methodology
implementation, and IT support.
This paper is part of PhD thesis entitled
“New indicators for total cardiovascular risk assessment
in hypertensive patients”.