TY - JOUR T1 - Considering a possible application to prevent or to treat arterial stiffness JF - Heart JO - Heart SP - 66 LP - 66 DO - 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302439 VL - 99 IS - 1 AU - Rainer Spiegel Y1 - 2013/01/01 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/99/1/66.1.abstract N2 - To the Editor I was impressed at reading the results of Mulders et al,1 who provided evidence that first-degree relatives of patients with premature coronary artery disease had increased arterial stiffness (measured by pulse-wave velocity) in the absence of coronary artery disease. The authors also found a relation between arterial stiffness and coronary artery calcification.As a physician, I wonder about ways to prevent the development of coronary artery disease in these individuals who seem to have this disposition. I found it interesting that patients with … ER -