EDS Patients Have Increased Blood Artery Stiffness, Linked to Cardiovascular Disease Risk
People with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) have significantly greater stiffness of their blood arteries — a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease — than their healthy peers, a Swiss study shows. While vascular EDS (vEDS) was associated with the highest arterial stiffness among the different EDS types, these differences did not…