Response to "Adjusting for brachial artery diameter in the analysis of flow-mediated dilatation: Pitfalls of a landmark paper?"

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 282-283

  Atkinson, Greg ^a   Batterham, Alan M ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis of covariance; Causal pathway; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; LETTER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASODILATATION;

HUMANS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASODILATION;

EID: 84876786228     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.02.029     Document Type: Letter

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