Inverse Relationship between Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index and Body Mass Index in Healthy Children.

Objective: To establish reference scores for cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI), a noninvasive measure of vascular function, which reflects the stiffness of arteries, in healthy children, to test for racial and ethnic differences, and to compare CAVI scores between overweight and normal weight children.

Study Design: Subjects included 292 children aged 10-18 years: 100 non-Hispanic whites, 89 non-Hispanic blacks, and 103 Hispanics. Subjects were grouped as normal weight (body mass index [BMI] <85th percentile for age) and overweight (BMI >85th percentile for age).

Preliminary assessment of an automatic screening device for peripheral arterial disease using ankle-brachial and toe-brachial indices.

Background And Objectives: Ankle-brachial index (ABI) is currently recommended for the screening of peripheral arterial disease. However, this method becomes less reliable in the presence of calcified, incompressible arteries, as they result in an erroneously elevated ABI, and an additional measure termed the toe-brachial index (TBI) is recommended. The evaluation of ABI, and in particular TBI, typically requires significant technical skill and often involves referral to a vascular laboratory.

Validation of the Fukuda Denshi DS-7000/NIBP-701 patient monitor by AAMI standard testing.

Objective: We evaluated the noninvasive blood pressure accuracy of the Fukuda Denshi DS-7000 patient monitor by both the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation and British Hypertension Society criteria.

Results: We performed both adult/pediatric and neonate/infant studies. The DS-7000 passed the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation Standard both for Methods 1 and 2 and achieved an A grade for the British Hypertension Society protocol analysis.