Reliability of brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation measurement using ultrasound;Confiabilidade da medida da dilatação fluxo-mediada da artéria braquial pela ultra-sonografia

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 176-183

  Meirelles, Cláudia De Mello ^a   Leite, Sandra Pereira ^a   Montenegro, Carlos Antonio Barbosa ^a   Gomes, Paulo Sergio Chagas ^a,b  

^a Centro de Pesquisas Interdisciplinares em Saúde   (Brazil)

^b GAMA FILHO UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Endothelial function; Internal consistency; Stability; Typical error of measurement; Vascular reactivity

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; STANDARD; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; ADULT; ARM; BLOOD FLOW; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASODILATION;

EID: 37449016016     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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