Altered blood vessel responses in the eye and finger in coronary artery disease

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 6199-6205

  Heitmar, Rebekka ^a   Cubbidge, Robert P ^a   Lip, Gregory Y H ^a,b   Gherghel, Doina ^a   Blann, Andrew D ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CILIARY ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; E-SELECTIN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; RETINAL ARTERY; SUPINE POSITION; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 80051499596     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6628     Document Type: Article

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