Petr Telegin Ltd. offers a unique opportunity of analyzing main artery stiffness by 24hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

It is recognized, that more than 50% of mortality in the world is caused by direct complications of hypertension or by related diseases: stroke, myocardial infarctions, heart or renal failure. Recent studies on large groups of patients show, that the increase of main arteries stiffness, estimated by the increase in pulse wave velocity, is an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk and cardiovascular mortality in patients with arterial hypertension and renal failure.

The analysis of arterial stiffness has a number of advantages as compared with other methods of arterial diagnostics: less complicated and labour-intensive, more cost-effective and perfectly suitable for routine clinical investigations.

In distinction from other on the market available devices with the function of arterial stiffness analyze, which can be used only for office researches, arteriograph BPLab® provides opportunity of making daily trends of various hemodynamic indexes.

Arteriograph BPLab® is an instrument, which combines monitoring of basic parameters of blood pressure and heart rate with the analysis of main artery stiffness, using BPLab®/Vasotens® software. The use of BPLab®/Vasotens® software in BPLab® blood pressure monitors (BPLab Standard, BPLab Advanced) allows performing mathematical processing of pressure oscillograms and ECG records. As a result, the following parameters can be measured by BPLab® arteriograph:

• Pulse Transit Time (PTT)
• Maximum rate of arterial pressure rise (dP/dt) max.
• Arterial Stiffness Index (ASI)
• Augmentation index (AIx)
• Stroke area index (Ssys)
• Systolic BP
• Diastolic BP
• Mean hemodynamic pressure
• Pulse rate or heart rate
• Pulse arterial pressure

24-hour trends of hemodynamics rates and a table of measuring results allows to evaluate PTT, AIx and other parameters, describing arterial stiffness during 24-hour monitoring period, and thus to receive not only 24-hour BP and heart rate profiles, but also stiffness parameters.