Comparison of arterial stiffness assessed by pOpm ètre® with arterial stiffness assessed by applanation tonometry: a clinical study

Background: Large artery stiffness is recognized as a strong, independent marker of cardiovascular risk, mainly through aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV). pOpm ètre® is a new non-invasive method, which estimates aortic PWV through finger-toe (FT) wave analysis. In a previous study, Alivon et al. have shown an acceptable correlation (r2 = 0.43 for PWV) between pOpmètre® and the reference method Sphygmocor. However this study led to the necessity to opt imize the algorithm and the procedures because of the presence of several outliers involving mainly obese and elderly subjects.

Source: Artery Research - November 25, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Hasan Obeid, Hakim Khettab, Pierre Boutouyrie, Stephane Laurent, Magid Hallab Source Type: research