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Table 7 Utah retrospective tortuosity comparison

From: Validation of an arterial tortuosity measure with application to hypertension collection of clinical hypertensive patients

Artery

Negative (N)

Hypertensive (N)

1-sided Wilcoxon

2-sided F Test

Left ACA

43

21

0.0565

+0.232

Right ACA

39

21

0.279

-0.0824

Basilar

42

18

0.0641

+0.0302

L to R ACA

24

11

0.805

+0.501

Left ICA

35

19

0.132

+0.371

Right ICA

36

19

0.366

+0.00206

Left VA

36

18

0.283

+0.00093

Right VA

35

16

0.297

+0.00174

  1. A (+) indicates increased hypertensive tortuosity and a (-) indicates decreased hypertensive tortuosity