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Figure 2 Rest blood pressure of the brachial artery after placebo administration and after atorvastatin treatment. The top portion of each bar represents systolic blood pressure (SBP); the white band in the middle represents mean arterial pressure (MAP); and the base portion of each bar represents diastolic blood pressure (DBP). Each pressure variable was analyzed in a separate two-way repeated measures analysis of variance and was significantly lower after atorvastatin treatment (*p_treatment <0.05 for SBP, DBP and MAP; both p_order and p_interaction were >0.05 for all variables; see text for individual p values). Data are presented as the mean value ± SEM.