Editorial: Vascular function and mechanisms of aging: hypertension, obesity and metabolic disorders

Abstract

Within the context of age-related decline, quality of life is intensely affected by the functional deterioration of the cardiovascular system. Understanding the role of obesity, hypertension, and metabolic disorders on vascular function and subsequent vascular aging is crucial for clinical and basic research and raises a strong interest to the scientific community. Indeed, a quick search yielded 26,984 articles published in the PUBMED database with the terms “Vascular Function and Aging.” Vascular aging is a multifactorial phenomenon that begins even before birth. However, we still do not have a single “true and complete” measure of this complex phenomenon; many parameters and tools have been proposed, all of which describe in a very fragmented way different aspects of the underlying process of “vascular aging” (Rietzschel and De Buyzere, 2022)…