Arterial Elasticity
Arterial Elasticity Index (hardening of the arteries) The Arterial Elasticity Index (AEI) is a test that measures the flexibility or hardness of arteries: this is different than arterial blockage. The AEI is measured with a modified blood pressure cuff that measures the extent of arteriosclerosis (hardness) of arteries. Using AEI, alongside conventional cardiovascular markers, we can precisely monitor your response to natural and conventional therapies. Are chelation, diet and exercise working?
This test indirectly tells us about loss of elasticity in a large number of body cells, tissues and organs. Virtually al human diseases and many chronic health problems are associated with hardening of body tissues and loss of function (to varying degrees). Any health strategy that is focused upon healthy aging and reversing sickness and disease should be objectively based upon reversing, as much as possible, loss of tissue elasticity. Loss of elasticity (increased stiffness) affects, and is affected by, a large number of factors including, but not limited to -
- Aging
- Toxin exposure
- Hormonal deficiencies
- Nutritional deficiencies
- Malabsorption syndromes
- Poor diet
- Certain medications
- Stress
A pre-arterial stiffness test and another re-test performed at some chosen point after natural therapies are begun, will prove that one's healing efforts are working. Some health conditions associated with loss of elasticity include:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21127698 - This study demonstrates that improvement in arterial stiffness identifies patients who have a more favorable prognosis.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17877923 - Promising study results show that measurement of arterial stiffness could become an important part of the routine assessment of patients in daily practice.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10472072 - This new concept should lead physicians to evaluate arterial stiffness for the prognosis and treatment of cardiovascular patients.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21179973 - Cardiovascular events from arterial stiffness ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21177171 - Sleep apnea increases cardiovascular problems
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21166628 - Emphesema, cardiovascular events and artery stiffness (calcification).
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21127697 - These results suggest long-term ingestion of SSE in humans could help to improve arterial stiffness.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21122858 - The present study suggests that elevation of ApoB or non-HDL cholesterol is associated with increased arterial stiffness in young adults.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21076576 - These results can imply the deleterious effect of acute hyperglycemic excursion on arterial stiffness in subjects with glucose intolerance.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21070721 - Measurement of arterial stiffness is a sensitive technique that can detect vascular damage in children with cardiovascular risk factors earlier than intima-media thickness measurement.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21103036 - Patients who have prominently increased arterial stiffness can be recommended to undergo colonoscopic examinations and at the same time we also recommend counseling about the risk for atherosclerosis in those who have colorectal adenomas.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16782104 - CRP could be a useful marker of arterial stiffness in treated hypertension patients and a possible target for arterial inflammation in hypertension.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20954972 - Renal artery stiffness is associated with arterial resistance (stiffness).
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20660051 - In young obese women with PCOS, (central) obesity, rather than PCOS itself, is associated with increased arterial stiffness. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20610595 - Obesity is associated with increased arterial stiffness.
