Table 2.

Characteristics of studies included.

		Population Characteristics			Intervention Characteristics			Outcome
Reference	Country	Sample Size	Mean Age	Status	Type of Antihypertensive Drugs	Dose	Length	Arterial Stiffness Parameter	Measurement Device	Baseline Levels
First author and year of publication	Country in which the study data were collected	Number of participants and percentage of female	Age (years) of the participants range or mean ± SD	Hypertension or Uncontrolled hypertension	Antihypertensive drugs included in the list of drugs in Appendix A	Dose administered and frequency	Length (months) of treatment	Type of arterial stiffness parameter (PWV, Aix, AASI, CAVI)	Arterial stiffness parameter measuring device	Baseline levels of the measured arterial stiffness parameter

Aix: augmentation index; AASI: ambulatory arterial stiffness index; CAVI: cardio-ankle vascular index; PWV: pulse wave velocity.