Continuous, cuffless, and noninvasive blood pressure monitoring by measuring pulse wave velocity is considered a promising technique, although previously reported links between pulse wave velocity and blood pressure involve assumptions that do not hold for human arteries; researchers report an analytical model that yields a link between blood pressure and pulse wave velocity, validated by experiments on human participants, and which could be used in the future to determine blood pressure from pulse wave velocity in continuous, cuffless, and noninvasive blood pressure monitoring systems.
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Article #18-14392: "Relation between blood pressure and pulse wave velocity for human arteries," by Yinji Ma et al.
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