Reproducibility of different methods to measure the endothelial function

Vascular Medicine (United Kingdom)

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 79-84

  Onkelinx, Steven ^a   Cornelissen, Veronique ^a   Goetschalckx, Kaatje ^b   Thomaes, Tom ^a   Verhamme, Peter ^b   Vanhees, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

endothelial function; flow mediated dilatation; peripheral arterial tonometry; reliability; typical error of measurement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MEDIATED DILATATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL HISTORY; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL TONOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPORTING EVENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TONOMETRY;

AGED; BELGIUM; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FINGERS; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; VASODILATION;

EID: 84861819113     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: 14770377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1358863X12436708     Document Type: Article

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