KPRC 2 spoke to doctors from here in San Antonio. While they all agreed that femoral pulse checks are a critical part of sports physicals for teenage athletes, they say it’s important to follow ...

Each participant visited the laboratory on three separate occasions. During the first workload estimation visit, a treadmill speed needed to elicit the desired heart rate (HR) for a ...

Although atherosclerosis is a generalized metabolic disorder, the plaque tends to build up at bifurcations of major vessels, including in the lower extremities. Here, the superficial femoral artery ...

A new technique to measure the stiffness of the aorta, a common risk factor for heart disease, involves measuring the pulse in the finger or on the arm, combined with an individual's age and body mass ...