Effect of Vitamin E on endothelial vasodilator function in patients with hypercholesterolemia, chronic smoking or both

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 499-505

  Heitzer, Thomas ^a   Ylä Herttuala, Seppo ^b   Wild, Elke ^a   Luoma, Jukka ^b   Drexler, Helmut ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIPID OXIDATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; VASODILATATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AUTOANTIBODIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIPID PEROXIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROPRUSSIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0033081082     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00584-1     Document Type: Article

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