Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a useful marker of target organ damage in hypertensive patients. It is used as a gold standard because of large body of evidence demonstrating its association with incident cardiovascular disease independently of traditional risk factors. Central blood pressure values (systolic, diastolic blood pressure, augmentation index) could be used in decision making what antihypertensive agent should we use. There are several techniques, most popular of which is applanation tonometry. Recently, normal and reference values have been published.
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