Total serum bilirubin does not affect vascular reactivity in patients with diabetes

Vascular Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-136

  Yeh, Susie Yim ^a   Doupis, John ^b   Rahangdale, Shilpa ^a   Horr, Samuel ^c   Malhotra, Atul ^a   Veves, Aristidis ^c,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilirubin; Diabetes; Endothelial function

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; BILIRUBIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETIC PATIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULATURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VASODILATATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADULT; AGED; BILIRUBIN; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGLYCERIN; NITROPRUSSIDE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 65349181560     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1358863X08098273     Document Type: Article

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