Impaired flow-mediated endothelium-dependent and endothelium-independent vasodilation of the brachial artery in patients with atherosclerotic peripheral vascular disease

Angiology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-56

  Komai, Hiroyoshi ^a   Higami, Yayoi ^a   Tanaka, Hisaharu ^a   Honda, Kentaro ^a   Juri, Masanobu ^a   Okamura, Yoshitaka ^b  

^a Saiseikai Wakayama Hospital   (Japan)

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endothelium independent nitroglycerin induced vasodilation; Flow mediated endothelium dependent vasodilation; Peripheral vascular disease

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGLYCERIN; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 39149090982     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319707303442     Document Type: Article

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