A Clinical Study of the Pulse Wave Characteristics at the Three Pulse Diagnosis Positions of Chon, Gwan and Cheok

Table 2

Results of two-way repeated measures ANOVA for mean differences at the three palpation positions.

	Chon		Gwan		Cheok		P-value
	First	Second	First	Second	First	Second
Baseline	1135.0 ± 300.9	1082.5 ± 248.3	955.0 ± 158.9	970.0 ± 185.9	1020.0 ± 238.1	1047.5 ± 259.8	4.615E−4*
Signal strength	520.5 ± 77.2	502.5 ± 79.7	554.0 ± 85.5	532.2 ± 80.2	475.3 ± 66.4	470.0 ± 74.1	2.354E−8*
AIx@75	−0.5 ± 5.15	0.0 ± 6.07	−1.8 ± 5.52	−1.9 ± 6.54	−2.4 ± 5.71	−2.2 ± 5.90	.004*
Radial AIx	47.4 ± 10.57	47.5 ± 9.95	46.9 ± 8.12	47.6 ± 8.79	48.4 ± 9.28	47.1 ± 9.34	.552
Time to reflection	151.7 ± 9.0	151.9 ± 11.0	154.2 ± 11.0	157.9 ± 13.0	159.2 ± 13.9	158.4 ± 15.2	2.4E−02*
P_T2	232.4 ± 12.8	228.4 ± 31.3	231.6 ± 11.7	234.2 ± 13.1	233.3 ± 15.1	232.8 ± 12.8	.578

*The mean difference is significant at the .05 level.