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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2017 Sep 30;64:50–58. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2017.09.042

Table 3.

Constitutive parameters describing aging of the femoropopliteal arteries with and without diabetes (DM)

Aging of All specimens Aging Without DM Aging With DM
t, years 11–80 41–80 41–80
Elastic constitutive parameters
Cgr, kPa 10.59 13.27 12.95
C1el, kPa 21.05 17.36 17.46
C2el
0.21 2.18 1.81
C1smc, kPa 2.94 6.64 24.33
C2smc
2.20 7.17 14.79
C1col, kPa 3.83 2.02 5.15
C2col
2.08 9.48 15.94
γ, ° 60.95 48.34 52.81
Stiffening functions
Dgr 1.18 0.0004e0.1042t + 0.9073 1.56
Del 0.0669e0.0460t + 0.8225 0.0191e0.050t + 0.8213 0.0541e0.0458t + 0.5222
Dsmc 1.07 1 1
Dcol 0.6283e0.0203t 0.1412e0.0322t + 0.3221 0.0056e0.0615t + 0.8855
Fit quality
Rz2
0.95 0.97 0.92
Rθ2
0.92 0.93 0.91