Comment on “The Relationship Between Ambulatory Arterial Stiffness Index and Incident Atrial Fibrillation”

First of all, we would like to congratulate the authors of this article for raising awareness that parameters (such as AASI) obtained from ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) have independent predictive value in many important diseases [2, 3]. [...]was there a statistically significant difference between the diagnosis duration of these diseases (hypertension, heart failure, and diabetes) in the AF and non-AF groups? [...]the number of variables evaluated in the regression analysis could have been increased to eight.