Flow-mediated dilation and gender in patients with coronary artery disease: Arterial size influences gender differences in flow-mediated dilation

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1051-1057

  Mizia Stec, Katarzyna ^a,b   Ga̧sior, Zbigniew ^a   Mizia, Magdalena ^a   Haberka, Maciej ^a   Holecki, Michał ^a   Zwolińska, Weronika ^a   Katarzyna, Kańczuga ^a   Skowerski, Mariusz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brachial artery diameter (BAd); Coronary artery disease (CAD); Flow mediated dilation (FMD); Gender; Nitroglycerine mediated vasodilatation (NTG MD)

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BRACHIAL ARTERY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 36249004397     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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