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Noninvasive assessment of vascular function in the posterior tibial artery of healthy humans

Flow-mediated dilation (FMD) measures the ability of an artery to relax in response to increases in blood velocity. FMD, primarily of the brachial artery, has been used as a noninvasive method of assessing vascular health. The purpose of this study was to assess FMD in the lower legs of humans. Six...

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Autores principales: Black, Christopher D, Vickerson, Bakari, McCully, Kevin K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC151670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12628021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-5918-2-1