Children and Adolescent Obesity Associates with Pressure-Dependent and Age-Related Increase in Carotid and Femoral Arteries’ Stiffness and Not in Brachial Artery, Indicative of Nonintrinsic Arterial Wall Alteration

Figure 3

Correlation analysis (linear regression plots) between stiffness parameters and blood pressure levels for normal weight (NW) and obese (OB) children and adolescents. Nonstatistical differences were found when equations (for the same artery) were compared (slopes comparisons) between NW and OB groups (data shown in Table 3), indicating a similar arterial stiffness-blood pressure association (relationship).

(a) Left common carotid artery

(b) Right common carotid artery

(c) Left common femoral artery

(d) Right common femoral artery

(e) Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity

(f) Carotid-radial pulse wave velocity