Relationship between wave reflection and renal damage in hypertensive patients: a retrospective analysis

Results: AIx and reflection magnitude were positively correlated with resistive index; age, BMI, central pulse pressure, and cholesterol, but not AIx or reflection magnitude, were predictors of resistive index in multivariate analyses. Crossing AQ3 tertiles of PWV and AIx, resistive index did not differ between patients with high AIx and low PWV (n1⁄4 25; 0.632 0.064) and those with low AIx and high PWV (n1⁄417; 0.645 0.053), despite a difference in reflection magnitude (74.9 6.7 vs. 51.2 7.3%; P<0.001).