Does a cuff-based assessment of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity provide comparable results to the standard tonometric method?
A novel cuff-based method for assessing carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity provides results comparable to the standard tonometric method when adjusted for the additional femoral segment.
This study provided validation of a cuff-based assessment of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity against the universally accepted tonometric method. Adjusting the cuff-based method for the additional femoral segment measured gives results comparable to the tonometer-based method, for which the majority of population data exist to date.
Butlin et al. (Fri,) studied this question.