Artery Research
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 27-31 , March 2010

Carotid–femoral pulse wave velocity: Impact of different arterial path length measurements

  • Jun Sugawara

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Aging Research Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
    • Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 6, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 6, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan. Tel.: +81 29 861 7138; fax: +81 29 861 6660.
    • ,
  • Koichiro Hayashi

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 6, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
    • ,
  • Takashi Yokoi

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 6, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
    • ,
  • Hirofumi Tanaka

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Aging Research Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

Received 17 September 2009 ,Revised 29 October 2009 ,Accepted 16 November 2009.

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PII: S1872-9312(09)00311-1

doi: 10.1016/j.artres.2009.11.001

Artery Research
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 27-31 , March 2010

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