Are vascular function measurements ready for the clinic?
Andrew M. Wilson1,2,* 1Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA 2Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia * Corresponding author. Tel: +1 650 723 6141; fax: +1 650 725 1599. E-mail address: awilson{at}cvmed.stanford.edu’ + u + ‘@’ + d + ”//–> This editorial refers to Flow-mediated changes in pulse wave velocity: a new clinical measure of endothelial function by K.K. Naka et al., on page 302 The relevance of vascular function assessments to clinical medicine Changes in vascular function such as endothelial function and arterial stiffness are key early features in the development of human cardiovascular disease, and non-invasive measures of vascular function have been utilized extensively in clinical research. Many non-invasive indices correlate well with more direct and invasive measures and thus can be applied to large cohorts, potentially outside of a laboratory. As some of these techn
