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.