Central Aortic Blood pressure is pressure generated in ascending aorta with each systole and diastole of heart. Peripheral brachial blood pressure is pressure in a brachial artery. In both,large central and peripheral blood vessels,systolic blood pressure is pressure generated in systole and diastolic blood pressure is net pressure during diastole.
Diastolic blood pressure in both vessels is constant but systolic blood pressure is variable. Clinical Significance: Emerging evidence showed that it is central aortic blood pressure which is associated with cardiovascular events in Hypertension. Measuring peripheral blood pressure is a time old method in practice for diagnosis and monitoring success of treatment of Hypertension because it is convenient, non-invasive and more practicable.Systolic blood pressure is much lower in central aorta and higher in peripheral blood vessels and…
