Arterial path length estimation on brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity

We concluded that the height-based formulas to estimate arterial path length grossly overestimate the actual path length resulting in the overestimation of PWV values and that baPWV was still significantly higher than other PWV measures even when the actual path length is used to calculate. These results suggest that other methodological considerations apart from the arterial path length estimation contribute to higher absolute baPWV values.