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HYPERTENSION RESEARCH
Volume 33, Issue 6, Pages 592-599Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2010.37
Keywords
central blood pressure; oscillometric signals; pressure wave reflection; pulse volume plethysmography
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- National Science Council [NSC 96-2314-B-010 -035 -MY3]
- Ministry of Education, Aim for the Top University Plan [96A-D-D131]
- Taipei Veterans General Hospital [V99C1-091]
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Current noninvasive techniques for assessing central aortic pressure require the recording of an arterial pressure wave using a high-fidelity applanation tonometer. We therefore developed and validated a novel method to estimate the central aortic systolic pressure using an oscillometric blood pressure monitor alone. Invasive high-fidelity right brachial and central aortic pressure waves, and left-brachial pulse volume plethysmography from an oscillometric blood pressure monitor, were obtained at baseline and 3 min after administration of sublingual nitroglycerin in 100 patients during cardiac catheterization. In the initial 50 patients (Generation Group), Central systolic blood pressure was predicted by a multi-variate prediction model generated from the comprehensive analysis of the invasive brachial pressure wave, including brachial late-systolic shoulder pressure value and parameters related to wave reflection and arterial compliance. Another prediction model was similarly constructed from the noninvasively calibrated pulse volume plethysmography. Both models were validated in the subsequent 50 patients (Validation Group) with results: r=0.98 (P<0.001) and mean difference=0.5 +/- 4.5 (95% confidence interval -8.3 to 9.3) mmHg for the invasive model, and r=0.93 (P<0.001) and mean difference -0.1 +/- 7.6 (95% confidence interval -15.0 to 14.8) mmHg for the noninvasive model. Thus, our results indicate that central aortic systolic blood pressure could be estimated by analysis of the noninvasive brachial pressure wave alone from an oscillometric blood pressure monitor. Hypertension Research (2010) 33, 592-599; doi:10.1038/hr.2010.37; published online 26 March 2010
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