| （Deparment of Sports Medicine，Chengdu Sport University，Chengdu 610041，China） Abstract: The author probed into the effects and applicability of the application of pulse wave conduction velocity (PWV) as well as malleolar and brachial blood pressure index (ABI) in physical checkup. By selecting 3,348 ordi-nary citizens at the age of 20-89 to measure such indexes as brachial artery to malleolar artery pulse wave conduc-tion velocity (baPWV), ABI, height, weight, body weigh index (BWI), the author revealed the following findings: the baPWV is gradually increased as the age increases; female’s baPWV is significantly lower than male’s; ap-proximately 3% of the citizens had an abnormal ABI (ABI < 0.9 or ABI > 1.3); the baPWV is positively correlative with the BWI (r=0.19~0.20，P<0.001). Conclusions: carrying out a PWV and ABI survey on groups of ordinary people can discover changes of the hardness and elasticity of blood vessel walls; it is extremely practical in the pre-vention and diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases as well as the improvement of sub healthy conditions via early control coupled with exercise intervention, and very suitable for being applied and popularized in citizen physical checkup.
Key words: sports medicine；pulse wave conduction velocity；malleolar and brachial blood pressure index；physical checkup；arteriosclerosis；exercise intervention |
