Climie RE, et al. - Researchers performed this study in healthy adults to examine the link between arterial stiffness and socioeconomic deprivation (at the individual and neighborhood levels). Using high-precision carotid echo-tracking, they determined carotid stiffness in 7,803 adults. Education, living alone, occupation, and Evaluation of the Deprivation and Inequalities of Health in Healthcare Centers score were all incorporated in the individual deprivation data. Using commune level data (smallest administrative subdivision) derived from French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (2011), they determined neighborhood deprivation using principal component analysis. In males, carotid stiffness was observed in relation to socioeconomic deprivation, both at individual and, to a lesser extent, neighborhood level. Females demonstrated an association of only individual deprivation with carotid stiffness.