《Association between serum homocysteine and arterial stiffness：role of antihypertensive drugs》.pdfVIP

Journal of Geriatric Cardiology (2014) 11: 175 ©2014 JGC All rights reserved;   Correspondence Open Access Association between serum homocysteine and arterial stiffness: role of anti- hypertensive drugs Ercan Varol Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey; E-mail: drercanvarol@ J Geriatr Cardiol 2014; 11: 175. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1671-5411.2014.02.015 Keywords: Homocysteine; Arterial stiffness; Hypertension; Antihypertensive drugs To the Editor group and 51% hypertensive subjects in the high one. [1] However, there is no data of antihypertensive drugs used. I read the article of Zhang, et al. with great interest. Also statins reduce arterial stiffness and there is also no data They investigated the association of homocysteine with about statin use.[3] It would have been useful if the authors arterial stiffness in Chinese community-based elderly per- had provided this information. sons. The carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) was