Where are we heading with noninvasive clinical vascular physiology? Why and how should we assess endothelial function?

Cardiology Research and Practice

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ellins, Elizabeth A ^a   Halcox, Julian P J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CILAZAPRIL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENALAPRIL; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOSARTAN; NITRIC OXIDE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; QUINAPRIL; RANOLAZINE; SALBUTAMOL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; EXERCISE; FLOW MEDIATED DILATATION; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULSE AMPLITUDE TONOMETRY; PULSE WAVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRESS; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; STROKE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

EID: 80053480675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20900597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4061/2011/870132     Document Type: Review

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