Professor Ashraf Khir's Outputs (2)

Subject-Specific Pressure Normalization of Local Pulse Wave Velocity: Separating Intrinsic From Acute Load-Dependent Stiffening in Hypertensive Patients (2022)
Journal Article
Giudici, A., Palombo, C., Kozakova, M., Morizzo, C., Cruickshank, J. K., & Khir, A. W. (2022). Subject-Specific Pressure Normalization of Local Pulse Wave Velocity: Separating Intrinsic From Acute Load-Dependent Stiffening in Hypertensive Patients. Frontiers in Physiology, 12, Article 783457. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.783457

Time-course of the human thoracic aorta ageing process assessed using uniaxial mechanical testing and constitutive modelling (2022)
Journal Article
Giudici, A., Li, Y., Yasmin, Cleary, S., Connolly, K., McEniery, C., Wilkinson, I. B., & Khir, A. W. (2022). Time-course of the human thoracic aorta ageing process assessed using uniaxial mechanical testing and constitutive modelling. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 134, Article 105339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2022.105339

Age-related remodelling of the arterial wall shifts the load bearing from the compliant elastin network to the stiffer collagen fibres. While this phenomenon has been widely investigated in animal models, human studies are lacking due to shortage of... Read More about Time-course of the human thoracic aorta ageing process assessed using uniaxial mechanical testing and constitutive modelling.