Artery Research

Volume 24, Issue C, December 2018, Pages 115 - 116

P125 ESTIMATION OF MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE IN NON-INVASIVE STUDIES

Authors
Chloe Park, Therese Tillin, Nish Chaturvedi, Alun Hughes
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, Department of Population Science & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, UCL, London, UK
Available Online 4 December 2018.
DOI
10.1016/j.artres.2018.10.178How to use a DOI?
Abstract

Background: Mean arterial pressure (MAP) is required for many hemodynamic calculations. Most automated devices do not report MAP and a form factor (FF) is used to estimate it from systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP). The appropriate choice of FF in the brachial artery is controversial: 0.33 is the traditional value, but invasive measurements report a value of 0.4. [1] Non-invasive studies have provided some support for FF = 0.4 but have usually not measured MAP directly, nor used brachial blood pressure waveforms, or accounted for BP measurement errors. We addressed these issues in a sample of white Europeans drawn from the Southall and Brent Revisited study.

Methods: BP was measured using a Pulsecor device (USCOM). Form factors (FFosc and FFwave) were calculated as (MAP-diastolic BP)/(systolic BP-diastolic BP) using MAPosc calculated by oscillometry and MAPwave calculated as the waveform mean respectively.

Results: Data are mean ± SD of 527 observations (Table 1). FFosc was lower than FFwave and use of FF = 0.4 (MAP0.4) overestimated MAPosc. Allowing for measurement errors based on [23] gave estimates of MAPwave that were more similar to MAPosc.

Conclusions: Measurement errors confound estimation of MAP using FF. Measurement errors vary substantially between devices [4] precluding a single FF for all studies. Non-invasive MAP should be estimated by oscillometric methods.

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Journal
Artery Research
Volume-Issue
24 - C
Pages
115 - 116
Publication Date
2018/12/04
ISSN (Online)
1876-4401
ISSN (Print)
1872-9312
DOI
10.1016/j.artres.2018.10.178How to use a DOI?
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license.

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