Figure 1.
Assessment of aortic pulse wave velocity.
Evaluation of aortic pulse wave velocity using (a1) a transfer function from (a2) brachial pressure wave analysis and (b) the cardiac magnetic resonance-derived transit time method based on phase-contrast imaging. R1 and R2 indicate the aortic region.
Table 1.
Study population characteristics.
Table 2.
Oscillometric measures and CMR-derived parameters of the study cohort.
Table 3.
Linear correlation between PWV, clinical characteristics, oscillometric measures and CMR-derived parameters.
Figure 2.
Correlation of aortic pulse wave velocity assessed by the two methods.
Linear correlation between aortic pulse wave velocities assessed by brachial oscillometry (PWVOSC) and cardiac magnetic resonance (PWVCMR).
Figure 3.
Bland-Altman plots representing the agreement between the oscillometric method and cardiac magnetic resonance for the assessment of aortic pulse wave velocity. Corresponding coefficient of variation was 15%.