AFM Characterization of the Internal Mammary Artery as a Novel Target for Arterial Stiffening

Table 1

Mean, median, standard deviation (SD), standard error (SE), skewness, and kurtosis for the elastic modulus data are presented for the hydrated and dehydrated IMA media.

			Mean	Median	SD	SE	Skewness	Kurtosis
Hydrated media (kPa)	Low PWV	7	250.5	255.4	39.1	14.8	−0.9	0.8
	High PWV	7	721.7	649.6	291.9	110.3	0.2	−0.4
Dehydrated media (MPa)	Low PWV	8	2116.2	2142.3	523.1	184.9	−0.3	−1.2
	High PWV	9	3163.6	3044.5	548.7	182.9	0.6	−1.1