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BioMed Central, BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 1(10), 2010

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2261-10-3

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Attenuation of microvascular function in those with cardiovascular disease is similar in patients of Indian Asian and European descent

Journal article published in 2010 by William D. Strain ORCID, Alun D. Hughes, Jamil Mayet, Andrew R. Wright, Jaspal Kooner, Nish Chaturvedi, Angela C. Shore
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addresses: Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School (Exeter), University of Exeter, UK. david.strain@pms.ac.uk ; notes: PMCID: PMC2823616 ; types: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Multicenter Study; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; © 2010 Strain et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ; Indian Asians are at increased risk of cardiovascular death which does not appear to be explained by conventional risk factors. As microvascular disease is also more prevalent in Indian Asians, and as it is thought to play a role in the development of macrovascular disease, we decided to determine whether impaired microcirculation could contribute to this increased cardiovascular risk in Indian Asians.