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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2014 Oct 6;65(1):85–92. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.114.04333

Table 2.

Indexed Metrics of Hydraulic Load

Load Metric Overall (n=4145) Men (n=2001) Women (n=2144) P-value
Indexed Systemic Vascular Resistance (Wood Units*m2), mean (95% CI) 33.4 (33.2-33.6) 34.0 (33.7-34.4) 32.8 (32.5-33.1) <0.0001
Indexed Total Arterial Compliance (mL/mm Hg/m2), mean (95% CI) 0.96 (0.96-0.97) 1.04 (1.03-1.06) 0.89 (0.88-0.90) <0.0001
Pb (mm Hg), mean (95% CI) 25.8 (25.5-26.0) 24.3 (24.0-24.6) 27.2 (26.8-27.5) <0.0001
Pf (mm Hg), mean (95% CI) 30.7 (30.5-31.0) 29.0 (28.6-29.3) 32.4 (32.0-32.7) <0.0001
Pb, adjusted for Pf (95% CI) 25.8 (25.7-25.8) 25.7 (25.6-25.8) 25.8 (25.7-25.9) 0.07
Reflection Magnitude, mean (95% CI) 0.838 (0.837-0.840) 0.836 (0.834-0.838) 0.840 (0.838-0.842) 0.005