Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, Healthy vascular aging, Target organ damage, Hospitalized patients, Specialties of internal medicine, RC581-951, Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, RC666-701

Abstract Objective To investigate the correlation between healthy vascular aging (HVA) and non-healthy vascular aging (NHVA) with hypertensive target organ damage (TOD). Methods This study included individuals from the Geriatrics Department of Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai since January 2023. The participants were divided into HVA and NHVA groups based on blood pressure and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV). HVA was defined as no history of hypertension and cf-PWV