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Abstract #1386

Aortic Compliance in Normals Correlates with Age and BMI

Yi Wang1,2, Edwin Estrada1, Simcha Pollack1, Visali Kodali1, Nathaniel Reichek1,2

1Research and Education, St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, NY, United States; 2Biomedical Enginnering, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, United States


Aortic compliance (AC) can be evaluated noninvasively and its reduction with age in normals has been demonstrated with MRI. Decreased aortic compliance (AC) is associated with aging, systolic hypertension and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction. Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) often serves as a surrogate to AC, and it can be evaluated using a single breath-hold phase contrast imaging technique. Its age correlation has been demonstrated by both MR and echo studies in normal volunteers. We evaluated the aortic compliance and their relationship to age, as well as the other biomedical parameters in 189 normal volunteers.