... (end-stage renal disease) patients starting peritoneal dialysis and 30 matched controls were studied using isolated small artery bioassays. Flow-mediated dilatation was attenuated in ESRD patients compared with controls. NO (nitric oxide) contribution to flow was lacking in ESRD patients, but present...

...Ellen A. Dawson; Sudhir Rathore; N. Timothy Cable; D. Jay Wright; John L. Morris; Daniel J. Green The aim of this study was to determine the impact of catheter sheath insertion, a model of endothelium disruption in humans, on the conventional FMD (flow-mediated dilatation) response in vivo...

... by Agatston and co-workers [(1990) J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 15 , 827–832] High-resolution ultrasound was employed to measure BAD (brachial artery diameter), FMD (flow-mediated dilatation) and NMD (nitroglycerine-mediated dilatation). CAC score and FMD were log-transformed after adding 1 to reduce skewness...

...Mikko J. Järvisalo; Laura Jartti; Jukka Marniemi; Tapani Rönnemaa; Jorma S. A. Viikari; Terho Lehtimäki; Olli T. Raitakari Brachial artery FMD (flow-mediated dilatation) is widely used as a marker of systemic arterial endothelial function. FMD, however, shows considerable 25% day-to-day variation...

... Society 2005 Correspondence: Dr Chris M. Papamichael (email [email protected] ). 14 12 2004 21 3 2005 30 3 2005 30 3 2005 caffeine coffee endothelial function decaffeinated coffee flow-mediated dilatation nitric oxide Coffee is one of the most widely...

... (pulse wave velocity), AIX (augmentation index) and FMD (flow-mediated dilatation) measurements has not been reported before. Nineteen healthy volunteers visited our department on two different occasions: the first visit was at 09:00 hours after an overnight fast, and the second visit was at 14:00 hours...

..., including carotid intima-media thickness, carotid artery compliance and brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation, in a population of 76 migrant-discordant male twin pairs (152 men). The number of men with seropositivity to Cpn infection (defined as IgA⩾1:64 and IgG⩾1:128) was greater in Finland than...

...Sagar N. DOSHI; Katerina K. NAKA; Nicola PAYNE; Christopher J.H. JONES; Moira ASHTON; Malcolm J. LEWIS; Jonathan GOODFELLOW Flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) of the brachial artery assessed by high-resolution ultrasound is widely used to measure endothelial function. However, the technique...

... resolution ultrasonography, at rest and during reactive hyperaemia. The investigation was conducted both with the participants at rest at room temperature and after 40 min of whole-body cooling. 3. Both study groups showed a marked attenuation of flow-mediated dilatation during whole-body cooling, which...