Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of the patient population divided according to FMTD-R.
Figure 1.
Serial changes in the physiological indices of flow-mediated vasodilatation.
Flow-mediated total dilation (FMTD) (A), flow-mediated dilation (FMD) (B), and low–flow-mediated constriction (L-FMC) (C) values were obtained at 15 and 60 min intervals after the measurement. All indices were blunted at 15 min and showed complete recovery at 60 min. Data are mean ± SD. *p<0.05, compared with the respective baseline measurement.
Table 2.
Brachial artery characteristics.
Figure 2.
Correlation between FMTD-R and other FMD-related indices.
Although a significant correlation between FMTD-R and L-FMC was confirmed (A), no relationship was found between FMTD-R and FMD (B) or FMTD (C). Notably, FMTD-R correlated significantly with CAVI (D).
Figure 3.
Correlation between CAVI and other FMD-related indices.
Although a significant correlation between CAVI and L-FMC was confirmed (A), no relationship was found between CAVI and FMD (B) or FMTD (C).
Figure 4.
Values of FMD-related indices and CAVI in the healthy subjects divided into the poor and good recovery groups based on the median FMTD-R value (-26.2%).
No significant difference was observed in FMD (A), FMTD (B), and L-FMC (C) values between the two groups. CAVI values were significantly higher in the poor recovery group.
Figure 5.
FMTD and FMTD-R measurements in consecutive FMD procedures in healthy volunteers.
Correlation analysis for FMTD (A) and FMTD-R (B) (p<0.01, respectively.). Bland-Altman Plots for FMTD (C) and FMTD-R (D). The dotted lines represent 1.96 ± SD.