Classification of Pressure Gradient of Human Common Carotid Artery and Ascending Aorta on the Basis of Age and Gender

The current work is done to see which artery has more chance of havingcardiovascular diseases by measuring value of pressure gradient in the commoncarotid artery (CCA) and ascending aorta according to age and gender. Pressuregradient is determined in the CCA and ascending aorta of presumed healthyvolunteers, having age between 10 and 60 years. A real 2D model of both aortaand common carotid artery is constructed for different age groups usingcomputational fluid dynamics (CFD). Pressure gradient of both the arteries arecalculated and compared for different age groups and gender. It is found thatwith increase in diameter of common carotid artery and ascending aorta withadvancing age pressure gradient decreases. The value of pressure gradient ofaorta is found less than common carotid artery in both cases of age and gender