aFaculty of Medicine Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Hypertension Clinic Hadassah Medical Center Mount-Scopus, Jerusalem and Department of Medicine D, Beilinson Hospital, Petach-Tikva, Israel

bResearch Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

cLaboratory of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zulia, Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela

dCentro de Nefrología and Departamento de Fisiopatología, Hospital de Clínicas, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

eSteno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Gentofte and Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

fDepartment of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo

gTohoku Institute for Management of Blood Pressure, Sendai, Japan

hDepartment of Cardiology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

iInstitute of Internal and Preventive Medicine, Internal and Preventive Medicine - Branch of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

jFaculty of Medicine, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic

kDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Hypertension, China

lFirst Department of Cardiology, Interventional Electrocardiology and Hypertension, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

mConway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

nAsociación Española Primera de Socorros Mutuos, Montevideo, Uruguay

oStroke and Hypertension Unit, Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland

pDepartment of Hypertension, Medical University of Gdañsk, Gdañsk, Poland

qDepartment of Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

rDepartment of Neurosciences and Department of Human Genetics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, Texas, USA

sSection of Geriatrics, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

tResearch Institute Alliance for the Promotion of Preventive Medicine, Mechelen

uBiomedical Science Group, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

vYazmonit Ltd, Jerusalem, Israel

Correspondence to Benjamin Gavish, PhD, Yazmonit Ltd., 9 Yehoshua Ben Nun Street 9314527, P.O.B. 8475, Jerusalem 9108302, Israel. Tel:/fax: +972 2 9922030; cell: +972 52 3438329; e-mail: [email protected]

Abbreviations: BP, blood pressure; elPP, elastic pulse pressure; HR, hazard ratio; PP, pulse pressure; PWV, pulse wave velocity; stPP, stiffening pulse pressure

Received 2 November, 2021

Revised 22 May, 2022

Accepted 30 June, 2022

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