Association of carotid wall shear stress measured by vector flow mapping technique with ba-PWV: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Arterial stiffness is an important tissue biomarker of the progression of atherosclerotic diseases. Brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (ba-PWV) is a gold standard of arterial stiffness measurement widely used in Asia. Changes in vascular wall shear stress (WSS) lead to artery wall remodeling, which could give rise to an increase in arterial stiffness. The study aimed to explore the association between ba-PWV and common carotid artery (CCA) WSS measured by a newly invented vascular vector flow mapping (VFM) technique.

Methods

We included 94 subjects free of apparent cardiovascular disease (CVD) and divided them into a subclinical atherosclerosis (SA) group (N = 47) and non subclinical atherosclerosis (NSA) group (N = 47). CCA WSS was measured using the

SUBMITTER: Cheng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10748391 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature