Noninvasive vascular function measurement plays an important role in detecting early stages of atherosclerosis and in evaluating therapeutic responses. In this regard, recently, new vascular function measurements have been developed. These new measurements have been used to evaluate vascular function in coronary arteries, large aortic arteries, or peripheral arteries. Increasing vascular diameter represents vascular remodeling related to atherosclerosis. Attenuated vascular elasticity may be a reliable marker for atherosclerotic risk assessment. However, previous measurements for vascular diameter and vascular elasticity have been complex, operator-dependent, or invasive. Therefore, simple and reliable approaches have been sought. We recently developed a new automated oscillometric method to measure the estimated area (eA) of a brachial artery and its volume elastic modulus (VE). In this review, we further report on this new measurement and other vascular measurements. We report on the reliability of the new automated oscillometric measurement of eA and VE. Based on our findings, this measurement technique should be a reliable approach, and this modality may have practical application to automatically assess muscular artery diameter and elasticity in clinical or epidemiological settings. In this review, we report the characteristics of our new oscillometric measurements and other related vascular function measurements.
| Mualliflar | Keiichiro Yoshinaga, Satoshi Fujii, Yuuki Tomiyama, Keisuke Takeuchi, Nagara Tamaki |
|---|---|
| Jurnal | PULSE |
| Nashr sanasi | 2016-01-01 |
| Jild | 4 |
| Son | 1 |
| Betlar | 1-10 |
| Til | en |
| DOI | 10.1159/000444368 |
DOI: 10.1159/000444368 · Maqolaning asl sahifasi
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