%0 Journal Article
%T Pulse Wave Analysis by Applanation Tonometry for the Measurement of Arterial Stiffness
%A Alison Cohen
%A Edward Horton
%A John Doupis
%A Lyndsay McFarlan
%A Nikolaos Papanas
%J Archive of "The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal".
%D 2016
%R 10.2174/1874192401610010188
%X The aim of our study was to investigate the association between pulse wave velocity (PWV) and pulse wave analysis (PWA)-derived measurements for the evaluation of arterial stiffness. A total of 20 (7 male and 13 female) healthy, non-smoking individuals, with mean age 31 ¡À 12years were included. PWV and PWA measurements were performed using a SphygmoCor apparatus (Atcor Medical Blood Pressure Analysis System, Sydney Australia). PWV significantly correlated with all central aortic haemodynamic parameters, especially with pulse pressure (PP) (p < 0.0001), augmentation index corrected for 75 pulses/min (AI75) (p = 0.035) and augmentation pressure (AP) (p = 0.005). Male subjects presented significantly higher PWV compared with females (p = 0.03), while there were no differences in PP, AP and AI75. In conclusion, PWA is strongly correlated with PWV as a method for the evaluation of arterial stiffness
%K Applanation tonometry
%K Arterial stiffness
%K Pulse wave analysis
%K Pulse wave velocity
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5012082/