Since the aorta is the major component of arterial elasticity, the carotid-femoral PWV offers the simplest reproducible and noninvasive evaluation of regional stiffness. This measurement allows the ...
A total of 531 subjects were available for this study, 210 individuals (mean±s.d. age, 27.8±2.8 years; range, 21.3–34.8 years; 54.8% EAs and 53.5% males) from the BP stress study and 321 twins (mean±s ...
Field examples from the Western Desert of Egypt show the effectiveness of compressional-wave velocity (V p) and shear-wave velocity (V s) crossplots for identifying the type of fluid contained in a ...