Open AccessPulse wave velocity in South African women and children: comparison between the Mobil-O-Graph and SphygmoCor XCEL devices
Author(s) -
Andrea KolkenbeckRuh,
Larske Soepnel,
Andrew Wooyoung Kim,
Sanushka Naidoo,
Wayne Smith,
Justine Davies,
Lisa J. Ware
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.249
H-Index - 172
eISSN - 1473-5598
pISSN - 0263-6352
DOI - 10.1097/hjh.0000000000002976
Subject(s) - medicine , pulse wave velocity , interquartile range , arterial stiffness , cardiology , confidence interval , wilcoxon signed rank test , blood pressure , pulse wave analysis , mann–whitney u test
Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) is the gold-standard noninvasive measure of arterial stiffness. Data comparing tonometry-based devices such as the SphygmoCor XCEL to simpler brachial-cuff-based estimates of PWV, such as from the Mobil-O-Graph in African populations are sparse. We therefore aimed to compare PWV measured by the Mobil-O-Graph and the SphygmoCor XCEL device in a sample of South African women and children.