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Journal: Artery Research
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P1.40 DETERMINATION OF PRESSURE INDEPENDENT ARTERIAL STIFFNESS BY CORRECTING PULSE WAVE VELOCITY FOR PRESSURE-AREA RELATIONSHIP
E. Hermeling, K.D. Reesink, A.A. Kroon, P. Segers, A.P.G. Hoeks
Pages: 101 - 102
Journal: Artery Research
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P80 ANALYSIS OF ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION IN MALE STUDENTS IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL: THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Marcos Paulo Camboim, Bruna Eibel, Lucia Pallanda, Salvador Neto, Gustavo Waclawovsky, Vitor Kunrath
Pages: 101 - 102
Context: School adolescents in Porto Alegre have a mean physical inactivity (PI) <300 min/week of 43%, and another 13% do not perform physical activities. In this scenario, endothelial cells that regulate vascular homeostasis by the expression of bioactive mediators may be influenced by inflammatory...
Journal: Artery Research
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P30 THE ROLE OF NOVEL BIOMARKERS IN ARTERIAL STIFFNESS, AND IN PREDICTING FURTHER VASCULAR EVENTS AFTER TIA AND LACUNAR STROKE
Esme Girdwood, Manuela Mengozzi, Eva Bunting, Jean Timeyin, Pietro Ghezzi, Chakravarthi Rajkumar
Pages: 101 - 102
Objective: To explore the role of biomarkers (hsCRP, sRANKL, PRDX1 and EPO) in arterial stiffness and in predicting further vascular events.
Methods: Patients from the ongoing ASIST study each attended a laboratory visit within fourteen days of their diagnosed TIA or lacunar stroke. Arterial stiffness...
Journal: Artery Research
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P1.39 AORTIC PULSE WAVE VELOCITY: SHOULD THE CAROTID – FEMORAL DISTANCE BE MEASURED ON BODY SURFACE OR ESTIMATED FROM BODY HEIGHT?
J. Filipovsky, O. Mayer, M. Dolejsova, J. Seidlerova, L. Bolek, L. Handl
Pages: 101 - 101
Journal: Artery Research
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P79 AORTIC VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES AND ALTERED ELECTROMECHANICAL CARDIO-AORTIC CONNECTION IN PATIENTS WITH CARDIAC AMYLOIDOSIS
Lucia Salvi, Paolo Salvi, Andrea Grillo, Stefano Perlini, Gianfranco Parati
Pages: 101 - 101
Background: Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is an infiltrative disorder caused by deposition of amyloid fibrils in the myocardial extracellular matrix. A wide scientific literature regarding amyloid heart disease is available, but no data about aortic viscoelastic properties. This studio has the aims to start...
Journal: Artery Research
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P29 TOTAL LONGITUDINAL DISPLACEMENT (TLOD) OF THE COMMON CAROTID ARTERY (CCA) DOES NOT DIFFER BETWEEN PATIENTS WITH MODERATE OR HIGH CARDIOVASCULAR RISK (CV) AND PATIENTS AFTER ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (AMI)
Urtė Gargalskaitė, Pranas Šerpytis, Karolis Azukaitis, Rokas Navickas, Vilma Dzenkeviciute, Jolita Badariene, Zaneta Petrulioniene, Kristijonas Česas
Pages: 101 - 101
Background: Total longitudinal displacement (tLoD) of the common carotid artery (CCA) wall is a novel ultrasound marker of vascular function that can be evaluated using modified speckle tracking techniques. Decreased CCA tLoD has already been shown to be associated with diabetes and was shown to predict...
Journal: Artery Research
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P1.38 CONVERSION BETWEEN DEFINITIONS OF PULSE WAVE VELOCITY
S.J. Vermeersch, E. Rietzschel, T.C. Gillebert, S. Laurent, P. Boutouyrie, P. Segers
Pages: 101 - 101
Journal: Artery Research
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P78 PRESSURE-INDEPENDENT ROLE OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE REGULATION OF ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN SUBJECTS WITH ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION
Luca Faconti, Bushra Farukh, Philip J. Chowienczyk
Pages: 101 - 101
Objective: To test if arterial stiffness (AS) can be modulated by the autonomic nervous system (ANS) independently of blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive patients.
Material and methods: AS was measured by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) using the SphygmoCor device (AtCor Medical, Australia)....
Journal: Artery Research
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P28 DETERMINANTS OF ARTERIAL STIFFNESS AS MARKER OF EARLY VASCULAR AGING IN PHYSICIANS POPULATION
Elena Shavarova, Eldar Kazahmedov, Artemiy Orlov, Zhanna Kobalava
Pages: 101 - 101
Objective: To analyze determinants of arterial stiffness in physician’s population.
Methods: Observational multicenter study of doctor’s vascular health conducted in 12 Russian cities (VICTORIA study). Demographics; smoking status; anamnesis of arterial hypertension (AH) with/without therapy, medications,...
Journal: Artery Research
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P1.37 NON-INVASIVE QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS WITH THE PULSE WAVE VELOCITY
I. Orlova, F. Ageev, I. Barinova
Pages: 101 - 101
Journal: Artery Research
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P77 TARGETED LIPIDOMICS OF ARTERIAL STIFFNESS AND HEMODYNAMICS IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS
Kaido Paapstel, Jaak Kals, Jaan Eha, Kaspar Tootsi, Aigar Ottas, Anneli Piir, Mihkel Zilmer
Pages: 101 - 101
Objectives: This study examined relationships between lipidomic profile, arterial function and hemodynamics in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients, peripheral arterial disease (PAD) patients and healthy controls.
Methods: We studied 52 patients with CAD, 32 patients with PAD, and 40 apparently healthy...
Journal: Artery Research
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P27 REPLACED RIGHT HEPATIC ARTERY AND INTERLOBAR BRIDGE OF LIVER WITH UNUSUAL ARTERIAL SUPPLY OF IVTH SEGMENT
Mehtap Yuksel, Turan Koc, Sezgin Ilgi
Pages: 101 - 101
A replaced right hepatic artery (rRHA) arising from the superior mesenteric artery and an interlobar parenchymal bridge over the sagittal fissure of liver have been observed on a 64 year old formalin-fixed male cadaver in the anatomy laboratory.
As we followed a detailed segmental anatomy, encountered...
Research Article
A Note on Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional Hazard Quantile Function
El Hadj Hamel, Nadia Kadiri, Abbes Rabhi
Pages: 101 - 107
In this paper, we study an kernel estimator of the conditional hazard quantile function (CHQF) of a scalar response variable Y given a random variable (rv) X taking values in a semi-metric space and using the proposed estimator based of the kernel smoothing method. The almost complete consistency and...
Research Article
Semantic Schema Matching for String Attribute with Word Vectors and its Evaluation
Kenji Nozaki, Teruhisa Hochin, Hiroki Nomiya
Pages: 100 - 106
Instance-based schema matching is to determine the correspondences between heterogeneous databases by comparing instances. Heterogeneous databases consist of an enormous number of tables containing various attributes, causing the data heterogeneity. In such cases, it is effective to consider semantic...
Review Article
Review and Prospect of Emergency Logistics under Uncertainty Conditions
Hanping Zhao, Chence Niu, Tingting Zhang, Sida Cai
Pages: 101 - 109
Emergency logistics is the key process of disaster relief activities. Abruptness and inaccurate prediction of disaster make emergency logistics operated under the condition of uncertainty; these uncertainties are essentially different from ones in traditional business decision. To seek the core and future...
Research Article
An Innovative Positioning System with Unsynchronized Interferometric Modulated Signals in Wireless Sensor Networks
Ruiling Gao, Alva Couch, Chorng Hwa Chang
Pages: 101 - 112
In this paper, we investigate the sensor localization problem and present Stochastic Radio Interferometric Positioning System with Unsynchronized Modulated Signals (SRIPS_UMS). Previous radio interferometric positioning methods have limitations include (1) strict hardware requirements for Received Signal...
Research Article
Quantum Dynamic Mechanism-based Parallel Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm
Xiao-ming You, Sheng Liu, Yu-ming Wang
Pages: 101 - 113
A novel Parallel Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm based on Quantum dynamic mechanism for traveling salesman problem (PQACO) is proposed. The use of the improved 3-opt operator provides this methodology with superior local search ability; several antibody diversification schemes were incorporated into...
Journal: Artery Research
Commentary
HIV, pressure wave reflections, and arterial stiffness: It’s a matter of time
Giuseppe Schillaci, Giacomo Pucci, Giuseppe V.L. De Socio
Pages: 100 - 103
Journal: eFood
Retraction
Retraction to ‘Xiao J, Wang M, Wu J L. Application of Carbon Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry in Authenticity of “Zero-Added Glutamate” Soy Sauces [J]. eFood, 2020, 1(6): 399-405’
Pages: 100 - 100
Research Article
The space of initial conditions and the property of an almost good reduction in discrete Painlevé II equations over finite fields
Masataka Kanki, Jun Mada, Tetsuji Tokihiro
Pages: 101 - 109
We investigate the discrete Painlevé equations (dPII and qPII) over finite fields. We first show that they are well defined by extending the domain according to the theory of the space of initial conditions. Then we treat them over local fields and observe that they have a property that is similar to...
Journal: Artery Research
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P1.36 A PRELIMINARY STUDY FOR THE EVALUATION OF LARGE ARTERY STIFFNESS: A NON CONTACT APPROACH
M. De Melis, U. Morbiducci, L. Scalise, E.P. Tomasini, D. Delbeke, R. Baets, L.M. Van Bortel, P. Segers
Pages: 100 - 101
Journal: Artery Research
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P76 CAROTID THERMAL HETEROGENEITY AND DYSLIPIDEMIA: THE HEAT IS ON
Iosif Koutagiar, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, Ioannis Skoumas, Evangelia Sigala, Vasiliki Gardikioti, Stavroula Pantou, Angeliki Rigatou, Nikolaos Ioakeimidis, Christos Georgakopoulos, Nikitas-Alexandros Skliros, Georgios Benetos, Spiros Galanakos, Dimitrios Tousoulis
Pages: 100 - 101
Background: Microwave Radiometry (MWR) is a new validated method, which allows evaluation of thermal heterogeneity of carotid arteries and is associated with inflammation.Purpose: The aim of this pilot study was to determine if thermal heterogeneity in the carotid arteries is associated with aortic elastic...
Journal: Artery Research
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P1.35 A NEW NON-INVASIVE ANALYSIS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF LOCAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY AND WAVE INTENSITY: APPLICATION TO THE CAROTID ARTERY
A.W. Khir, N. Hadjiloizou, J. Feng, J.E. Davies, J. Mayet, D.P. Francis, A.D. Hughes
Pages: 100 - 100
Journal: Artery Research
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P75 DIFFERENTIAL ELASTIN DEGRADATION AND MICROMECHANICAL PROPERTIES IN ASCENDING AORTIC ANEURYSM GROUPS: STATISTICAL MODELLING
Ya Hua Chim, Hannah Davies, Francesco Diaz De la O, Mark Field, Jill Madine, Riaz Akhtar
Pages: 100 - 100
Background: Elastin microstructure is an important factor in aortic aneurysms. However, it is unclear whether elastin microstructure varies in different ascending aneurysm aetiologies, and how this relates to micromechanical behaviour. Objective to combine in vitro experimentation and statistical modelling...
Journal: Artery Research
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P25 VASCULAR AGING IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SEVERITY OF CEREBRAL WHITE MATTER LESION LOAD
Lisanne Tap, Annegreet van Opbroek, Wiro Niessen, Marion Smits, Francesco Mattace- Raso
Pages: 100 - 101
Background: Blood pressure (BP) levels and aortic stiffness are associated with the presence of cerebal small vessel disease, whereas little is known on the possible association of BP levels, aortic stiffness and the severity of cerebral small vessel disease. In a pilot study we investigated whether...
Journal: Artery Research
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P1.34 VALIDATION OF THE WORKING PRINCIPLE OF THE ARTERIOGRAPH, A NEW DEVICE TO MEASURE PULSE WAVE VELOCITY
B. Trachet, J.G. Kips, A. Swillens, M.L. De Buyzere, B. Suys, N. Stergiopulos, P. Segers
Pages: 100 - 100
Journal: Artery Research
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P74 SLEEP QUALITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH CEREBROVASCULAR FUNCTION IN INDIVIDUALS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Georgios Grigoriadis, Alexander J. Rosenberg, Sang Ouk Wee, Elizabeth C. Schroeder, Garett Griffith, Tracy Baynard
Pages: 100 - 100
Introduction: Individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) exhibit impaired cerebrovascular function and have poor sleep quality. In the general population, poor sleep contributes to cerebrovascular dysfunction and is related to cardiovascular disease (CVD). Improving sleep quality may have beneficial effects...
Journal: Artery Research
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P24 SEX-SPECIFIC PULSE WAVE VELOCITY CUT-OFFS IMPROVE SURVIVAL ANALYSIS IN PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
Christopher C. Mayer, Bernhard Hametner, Katy Whitelegg, Thomas Weber, Siegfried Wassertheurer
Pages: 100 - 100
Objectives: There is evidence for sex and age influences on pulse wave velocity (PWV). Guidelines suggest a sex-independent cut-off for PWV. It is not obvious that an age- and blood-pressure-independent cut-off is suitable in different populations [1, 2].
Thus, the aim is to investigate the suitability...
Journal: Artery Research
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P1.33 COMPARISON BETWEEN ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENTS OF CAROTID WALL PROPERTIES AND NEW AUTOMATED METHOD BY ANALYSIS OF IMAGING
E. Bozec, I. Masson, C. Collin, R. Meijer, M. Muurling, P. Boutouyrie, S. Laurent
Pages: 100 - 100
Journal: Artery Research
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P73 AORTIC BUT NOT PERIPHERAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY IS IMPROVED AFTER HEART RATE TARGETED AEROBIC PHYSICAL TRAINING IN METABOLIC SYNDROME SUBJECTS
Ieva Slivovskaja, Jurate Balsyte, Ligita Ryliskyte, Jolita Badariene, Rokas Navickas, Aleksandras Laucevicius
Pages: 100 - 100
Objective: To evaluate the response of aortic and peripheral arterial stiffness parameters to heart rate (HR) targeted exercise training in metabolic syndrome (MS) subjects.
Methods: This cohort study included 170 individuals with MS (mean age 53.3 ± 6.9 years, 55% women). The subjects were recruited...
Journal: Artery Research
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P23 PREDICTION OF TOTAL AND CAUSE-SPECIFIC MORTALITY INCIDENCE AS WELL AS CARDIOVASCULAR MORBIDITY BY USE OF NON-INVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF CAROTID- FEMORAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY AS A MEASURE OF ARTERIAL STIFFNESS
Peter Nilsson, Mikael Gottsäter, Abd al-Hakim Fatehali
Pages: 100 - 100
Objective: Arterial stiffness (AS) increases with age and predicts total mortality and total cardiovascular (CV) events. It has also been shown that positive family history (FH+) of cardiometabolic disease influences AS. We aimed to: 1) examine if AS predicts total mortality among elderly subjects, as...
Research Article
Using Cryptographic Technique for Securing Route Discovery and Data Transmission from BlackHole Attack on AODV-based MANET
Seryvuth Tan, Phearin Sok, Keecheon Kim
Pages: 100 - 107
MANET is a dynamic wireless network without any infrastructures. The network is weak and vulnerable to many types of attacks including BlackHole attack. BlackHole node advertises itself as having freshest or shortest path to a specific node to absorb packets. The effect of BlackHole attack on AODV will...
Research Article
Target Recognition based on Machine Vision for Industrial Sorting Robot
Jiwu Wang, Huazhe Dou, Shunkai Zheng, Masanori Sugisaka
Pages: 100 - 102
In order to improve the applications for an industrial sorting robot, it is necessary to increase its flexibility and control accuracy. Here an industrial robot arm is designed and set up for experiment simulation with machine vision. Some target recognition experiments are designed for vision recognition....
Research Article
Brownian Motion on a Smash Line
Demosthenes Ellinas, Ioannis Tsohantjis
Pages: 100 - 105
Brownian motion on a smash line algebra (a smash or braided version of the algebra resulting by tensoring the real line and the generalized paragrassmann line algebras), is constructed by means of its Hopf algebraic structure. Further, statistical moments, non stationary generalizations and its diffusion...
Research Article
Particle Swarm Optimization with Novel Processing Strategy and its Application
Yuanxia Shen, Wang, Chunmei Tap
Pages: 100 - 111
The loss of population diversity is one of main reasons which lead standard particle swarm optimization (SPSO) to suffer from the premature convergence when solving complex multimodal problems. In SPSO, the personal experience and sharing experience are processed with a completely random strategy. It...
Editorial
Sickle cell disease in Saudi Arabia: A challenge or not
Maha Mohammed Alotaibi
Pages: 99 - 101
Short Communication
Progress on human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and cervical cancer prevention in sub-Saharan Africa: Highlights of the 27th International Papillomavirus Conference in Berlin, 17–22 September 2011
Ziad El-Khatib, Joseph E. Tota, Andreas M. Kaufmann
Pages: 99 - 102
Highlights of the International Papillomavirus Conference in Berlin, 17–22 September 2011.
Letter to Editor
Acute-onset atrial fibrillation and ambient air temperature: A linear or a non-linear association?
Tanvir Chowdhury Turin, Yoshikuni Kita, Nahid Rumana
Pages: 99 - 101
Journal: Artery Research
Mini Review
Arterial stiffness and inflammation – A potential target for a drug therapy
Kaisa M. Mäki-Petäjä, Ian B. Wilkinson
Pages: 99 - 107
Journal: Artery Research
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PO-37 THE IMPACT OF INTRADIALYTIC PEDALING EXERCISE ON ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN A HEMODIALYSIS POPULATION
Alexandra B. Cooke, Vincent Ta, Yessica-Haydee Gomez, Sameena Iqbal, Stella S. Daskalopoulou
Pages: 99 - 100
Objectives: Hemodialysis patients are at greater risk of increased arterial stiffness. Regular aerobic exercise has been shown to reduce arterial stiffness in hemodialysis patients. However, the impact of a more realistic intradialytic form of exercise, such as pedaling, is unclear. Therefore, we aimed...
Case Report
Neonatal Hemochromatosis: Treatment with Exchange Transfusion and Intravenous Immunoglobulin
Ehab Mohamed Hantash, Abdulrahman Al Zahrani, Mohamed Abdoun, Syeda Naqvi, Georges E. Nawfal
Pages: 99 - 103
Neonatal Hemochromatosis (NH) is a rare phenotype of severe fetal/neonatal liver injury that is accompanied by extrahepatic siderosis. Current clinical evidence shows that NH is not a disease per se, but is the consequence of fetal liver injury. Gestational alloimmune liver disease is the cause of nearly...
Research Article
Performance Information Editing System for Player Piano Aiming at Human-like Performance
Ryo Kinoshita, Eiji Hayashi
Pages: 99 - 103
We have developed a system that enables automatic piano performance. To make this piano play like a living pianist, we have to add expression to the performance. Accordingly, we have developed a musical editing system that utilizes a database to edit music more efficiently.
Journal: Artery Research
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P1.32 BRACHIAL-ANKLE PULSE WAVE VELOCITY: A NEW METHOD FOR CLINICAL EVALUATION OF ARTERIAL STIFFNESS COMPARED WITH CAROTID-FEMORAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY
F. Santini, C. Palombo, C. Morizzo, E. Malshi, P. Spontoni, M. Kozakova, Di Stefano R, A. Balbarini
Pages: 99 - 100
Journal: Artery Research
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P1.31 DETERMINING PULSE WAVE VELOCITY USING MRI: A COMPARISON AND REPEATABILITY OF RESULTS USING SEVEN TRANSIT TIME ALGORITHMS
M. Butlin, S. Hickson, M.J. Graves, C.M. McEniery, A.P. Avolio, I.B. Wilkinson
Pages: 99 - 99
Journal: Artery Research
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P1.30 INDICES OF ARTERIAL STIFFNESS AND RAISED BLOOD PRESSURE AMONGST PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN IN GUJARAT, INDIA
J.V. Patel, R. Potluri, A. Gunarathne, J.K. Cruickshank, GYH Lip, D. Prabharkaran, P.S. Gill, E.A. Hughes
Pages: 99 - 99
Journal: Artery Research
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P72 AORTIC PULSE WAVE VELOCITY IN PATIENTS WITH COPD: 5-YEAR DATA FROM THE ARCADE STUDY
Nichola Gale, Mahfoudha Al Shezawi, Maggie Munnery, Barry Mcdonnell, John Cockcroft
Pages: 99 - 100
Background: Cardiovascular (CV) disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in COPD 1 . Aortic pulse wave velocity (AoPWV), an independent predictor of CV risk, is elevated in COPD 2 , however, there have been no longitudinal studies of AoPWV in COPD. The Assessment of Risk in Chronic Airways...
Journal: Artery Research
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P22 CIRCADIAN VARIATIONS IN THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
Thomas Weber, Siegfried Wasserheurer, Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss, Enrique Rodilla Sala, Piotr Jankowski, Maria Lorenza Muisan, Cristina Giannatasio, Ian Wilkinson, Joerg Kellermair, Bernhard Hametner, Jose Maria Pascual, Robert Zweiker, Danuta Czarnecka, Anna Paini, Massimo Salvetti, Allessandro Maloberti, Peter Fitscha, Kai Mortensen, Elisabeth Wagner, Carmel McEniery, Cornelia Ablasser
Pages: 99 - 99
Background: Comprehensive information on 24-hour profiles of pulsatile as well as steady-state hemodynamics in humans is not available yet.
Methods: In 693 healthy individuals (352 men) free from antihypertensive drugs, we performed 24-hour blood pressure (BP) monitoring with a validated oscillometric...
Journal: Artery Research
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19. AORTIC DISTENSIBILITY IS MORE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH CAROTID INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS THAN AORTIC INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS IN THE PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE
Hyun Ju Yoon, Min Gu Lee, Jum Seok Ko, Kun Ho Park, Ju Han Kim, Younggeun Ahn, Myung Ho Jeong, Jung Gwan Cho, Jung Chaee Kang, Jong Chun Park
Pages: 99 - 99
Background: The aorta plays a central role for a modulator in whole cardiovascular system by its elasticity. If the elasticity was decreased, aortic distensibility was also decreased and stiffness index was elevated. In this study, we investigated the relationship between aortic distensibility calculated...
Journal: Artery Research
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P1.29 ONE CLINIC MEASURE OF LIGHT EXERCISE CENTRAL BLOOD PRESSURE IS A STRONGER CORRELATE OF LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS THAN 24 HOUR AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING
J.E. Sharman, S. Thomas, J.L. Hare, R. Leano, C. Jenkins, T.H. Marwick
Pages: 99 - 99