These findings demonstrate epidemiologic evidence for an independent association between arterial stiffness and microalbuminuria, indices of subclinical target organ damage in nonhypertensive, nondiabetic individuals, which suggests the possibility of a similar pathophysiologic mechanism involved in these two indices of subclinical target organ damage.
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