Relation of Season and Temperature to Endothelium-Dependent Flow-Mediated Vasodilation in Subjects Without Clinical Evidence of Cardiovascular Disease (from the Framingham Heart Study)††Conflict of interest: Dr. Mitchell is president of Cardiovascular Engineering, Inc.

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 518-523

  Widlansky, Michael E ^a   Vita, Joseph A ^a   Keyes, Michelle J ^b,d   Larson, Martin G ^b,d   Hamburg, Naomi M ^a   Levy, Daniel ^d   Mitchell, Gary F ^c   Osypiuk, Ewa W ^d   Vasan, Ramachandran S ^a,d   Benjamin, Emelia J ^a,b,d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CARDIOVASCULAR ENGINEERING INC   (United States)

^d FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLIMATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION; WINTER;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; VASODILATION;

EID: 34547122236     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.03.055     Document Type: Article

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