Letter by Safar and Jankowski Regarding Article, “Arterial Stiffness and Cardiovascular Events: The Framingham Heart Study”

To the Editor: We read the article by Mitchell et al1 with great interest. The authors found that pulse-wave velocity but not central pulse pressure (PP) is independently related to the risk of cardiovascular events in community-based sample. Unexpectedly, PP was not related to the risk of cardiovascular events …