Poly-Spectrum-PWV

The classical method of PWV analysis using synchronous sphygmogram recording of the sleep, radial and femoral arteries has a higher accuracy compared to indirect oscillometry methods. In studies to assess the risk of cardiovascular complications in patients with arterial hypertension, conducted in Europe in accordance with the principles of evidence-based medicine, it is sphygmographic method used to evaluate the elasticity of the aorta.

About PWV

1878: A. Isebree Moens and D. J. Korteweg established the basic movement patterns of the liquid pressure wave in the tube with elastic walls.

2001-2006: published results of studies that proved the prognostic significance of changes in the rate of pulse wave propagation in arterial hypertension from the point of view of evidence medicine (Willum Hansen T. et al. Prognostic value of aortic pulse wave velocity as index of arterial stiffness in the general population // Circulation. - 2006. - T. 113. -   5. - S. 664-670. OS; Laurent S. et al. Aortic stiffness is an independent predictor of all-predictorcause and cardiovascular mortality in hypertensive patients // Hypertension. - 2001. - T. 37. -   5. - S. 1236-1241. OS).

2007, June: the recommendations of the European Society for the Study of Arterial Hypertension (ESH) and the European Society of Cardiologists (ESC), in which the estimation of the rate of propagation of the pulse wave is included in official criteria for stratifying the risk of patients with arterial hypertension (2007 Guidelines for the Managerment of Arterial Hypertension. The Task Force for the Management of Arterial Hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)).