Vasera-screening of premature vascular aging and its correction in young persons: University Health Center experience

Abstract

Angiological screening was performed to determine the cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) in 224 young people to determine their vascular aging phenotype. All subjects were divided into CAVI-tercile groups. According to the experts views the upper tercile of this distribution corresponds to early vascular aging or EVA syndrome. Lower tercile corresponds to favorable one and average tercile – to normal vascular aging. In these CAVI-tercile groups, the representation of individuals with signs of arterial hypertension/prehypertension (AH/PH) and overweight was evaluated. It turned out that among boys and girls with risk factors (RF), carriers of various vascular phenotypes are noted, from favorable one to early vascular aging. Such data indicate the need to form youth risk groups, taking into account the presence of not only classical RF, but also the assessment of vascular stiffness. The obtained data is useful to take into account in the process of youth medical examination in order to further develop more individualized preventive intervention programs for each young person.