Reproducing the Literature Review

Introduction

An important strand of the pwdb project was to perform a review of how cardiovascular properties change with age. This review differed slightly from previous reviews in that it specifically considered the cardiovascular properties which are provided as inputs to the model of pulse wave propagation, which was used to simulate pulse waves.

The review is described in full in the accompanying article. The remainder of this page provides details of how to reproduce the review.

Requirements

You will need the following in order to re-produce the literature review:

• The file containing raw data extracted from the reviewed articles: pwdb_changes_with_age_review.txt
• The Matlab ® script to extract the raw data from this file and perform the analysis: pwdb_changes_with_age_analysis.m
• An installation of Matlab ®

The raw data file and the Matlab ® script will be provided as supplementary material in the article describing the Pulse Wave Database. These two files should be located in the same directory.

If you do not have a Matlab ® installation, then you can still access the raw data, which is in tab-delimited format.

Steps

Take the following steps to reproduce the review:

1. Open pwdb_changes_with_age_analysis.m in Matlab ®.
2. Run pwdb_changes_with_age_analysis.m using the following command:

[results_table] = pwdb_changes_with_age_analysis;

3. This will produce a table in the Matlab ® Workspace called results_table. This contains the results of the literature review.