. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 3.

Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2009 Mar;29(3):583–587. doi: 10.1002/jmri.21702

TABLE 2.

Histologic Morphometric Analysis results from control (N) and hypertensive (HT) aortas. Young's modulus was calculated using the combined intima-media thickness.

	Control (N)	Hypertensive (HT)	P-Value
Intima area [mm²]	0.135 ± 0.041	0.378 ± 0.106	0.001
Media area [mm²]	4.536 ± 0.752	12.535 ± 1.264	<0.001
Ratio intima/media area	0.029 ± 0.005	0.031 ± 0.011	0.781
Lumen radius [mm]	1.233 ± 0.170	1.922 ± 0.190	<0.001
Intima radius [mm]	1.250 ± 0.017	1.953 ± 0.185	<0.001
Media radius [mm]	1.733 ± 0.179	2.739 ± 0.179	<0.001
Intima thickness [mm]	0.017 ± 0.005	0.032 ± 0.010	0.02
Media thickness [mm]	0.483 ± 0.048	0.841 ± 0.059	<0.001
Intima+media thickness [mm]	0.501 ± 0.053	0.873 ± 0.053	<0.001
Ratio intima/media thickness	0.036 ± 0.014	0.038 ± 0.007	0.719
Young's Modulus [×10⁵ Pa]	8.53 ± 1.05	6.06 ± 1.36	<0.001

Values are mean ± standard deviation.