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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2015 Jun 5;62(8):1879–1901. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2015.2441951

Table I.

The correlation between pulse transit time – through central arteries and estimated via the foot-to-foot time delay between invasive proximal and distal blood pressure (BP) waveforms – and diastolic BP is high.

Ref # Subjects Underlying BP Range [mmHg] Correlation with BP
[47] 10 Dogs 15–250 r=0.76–0.86
[49] 3 Dogs 53±12 r=0.96–0.99
[48] 10 Dogs Control 115±13 / Intervention 106±45 r=0.91–0.98
[46] 12 Dogs 67±14 r=0.94