Continuous tracking of the brachial artery pressure waveform was obtained with standard methodology (41 (link)), and the average of 2 or more recorded profiles was used for PWA as previously reported (13 (link)). The AIx was calculated from the aortic pressure waveform as the difference in height between the first and the second systolic peaks that were expressed as a percentage of the pulse pressure. The intraobserver coefficient of variation of the AIx was 8.4%.
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