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Elsevier, American Journal of Cardiology, 5(94), p. 693-696, 2004

DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.05.049

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Repeatability of noninvasive surrogates of endothelial function

Journal article published in 2004 by Jan Malik ORCID, Dan Wichterle, Tomas Haas, Vojtech Melenovsky, Jan Simek, Tomas Stulc
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Abstract

We compared the repeatability of 2 ultrasonographic methods for endothelial function assessment at brachial artery-flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and post-ischemic peak blood flow (PBF). Twenty healthy volunteers were examined twice within 10 days; coefficients of variation were 13.8% for PBF and 41.0% for FMD. PBF seems to be superior to FMD in terms of reproducibility. Consequently, smaller noninvasive studies of endothelial function can be designed utilizing PBF compared with FMD.