A novel method for assessing arterial stiffness by a hydrostatic approach

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1789-1791

  Liu, Yinbo ^a   Poon, Carmen C Y ^a   Zhang, Yuan Ting ^a,c   Yip, Gabriel W K ^b   Yu, Cheuk Man ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Hydrostatic calibration; Pulse transit time; Wearable devices

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; HYDRAULICS; STIFFNESS;

ARM MOVEMENTS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; CARDIOVASCULAR EVENT; HEALTH CONDITION; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAM; PULSE TRANSIT TIME; WEARABLE DEVICES;

TRANSIT TIME DEVICES;

EID: 77951002237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333999     Document Type: Conference Paper

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