Ultrasonographic Measurement of Common Carotid Artery Wall Pulse Dynamics and Longitudinal Motion – Method Validation and a Novel Parameter Ratio

The enormous burden that cardiovascular diseases put on individuals and societies warrants reliable biomarkers of disease risk to optimize disease prevention. We studied longitudinal movement (LMov) in arterial walls using ultrasound of the common carotid artery (CCA). We believe that LMov could be a sensitive biomarker of cardiovascular health and in this study, we evaluate the intra-observer repeatability and inter-observer precision of our method. We also present a novel parameter ratio.