... insulin concentration was determined in arterial blood. adenosine non-esterified fatty acid (NEFA) arterial compliance blood flow autonomic nervous system For the determination of plasma insulin, adrenaline and noradrenaline, blood was collected in pre-cooled lithium–heparin-containing...

... of arterial stiffness were employed: systemic arterial compliance (SAC) was measured by simultaneous recording of aortic flow and carotid artery pressure (‘area method’), and pulse wave velocities (PWVs) were recorded with the ‘Complior’ system. The 16 cases underwent glucose-tolerance and fasting-lipids...

... 5 2002 26 6 2002 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society © 2002 2002 arterial compliance photoplethysmography pulse wave velocity 371Clinical Science (2002) 103, 371 377 (Printed in Great Britain) Determination of age-related increases in large artery...

... ). The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society © 2002 2002 arterial compliance arterial impedance arterial stiffness pulse contour analysis pulse-wave velocity. 51Clinical Science (2002) 102, 51 67 (Printed in Great Britain) + R E V I E W Evaluation of mechanical arterial properties...

... tonometer device. A computer-based assessment of the diastolic pressure decay was employed to quantify changes in arterial waveform morphology in terms of altered pulsatile (arterial compliance) and steady-state (peripheral resistance) haemodynamics. N G -nitro- L -arginine methyl ester ( L -NAME...

... for measuring arterial compliance are to be of clinical use they should be able to distinguish between cohorts of patients with generalized vascular disease and age- and sex- Key words: aortic distensibility, arterial compliance, blood pressure, cerebrovascular disease, pulse wave velocity, stroke...

...D. Fitchett; J. D. Bouthier; A. Ch. Simon; J. A. Levenson; M. E. Safar 1. Arterial compliance was determined in eight normal subjects and 23 patients with hypertension and vascular disease by two independent techniques: (a) with a plethysmographic strain gauge (to measure pulsatile forearm volume...

... flow was evaluated by means of a pulsed Doppler device with a double transducer probe, enabling a precise evaluation of the calibre of the brachial artery. From analysis of the pressure-flow curves during diastole, forearm arterial compliance was estimated by using an original first-order model...