[Noninvasive quantitative assessment of atherosclerosis with the pulse wave velocity (PWV) and the computed tomography of the abdominal aorta].
Noninvasive quantitative assessment of atherosclerosis should be useful for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. The pulse wave velocity is a physiological examination and one of the good tool for the determination of sclerosis. Aging and hypertension should be major risk factors to increase the PWV and the higher content of elastin in the arterial wall could make the PWV lower, but few reports exit about the influence of hyper-lipidemia on PWV. The aoPWV in diabetic patients had higher than that in non diabetic and IGT patients. Wall thickening and or calcification accumulation of the lower abdominal aorta was measured to assess the progression of atherosclerosis by using CT and the image colour analysis. We found the good correlation between the aortic calcification-stenosis indices and the coronary stenosis indices, and significant higher levels in patients with cardiovascular diseases.
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National Cardiovascular Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Atherosclerosis and Metabolism.
D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001794:Blood Pressure; D006801:Humans; D011673:Pulsatile Flow; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed