Impaired brachial artery endothelial function is not predicted by elevated triglycerides
Greg B. Schnell, MDa,
Annette Robertson, RNa,
Deborah Houstona,
Linda Malleya and
Todd J. Anderson, MDa
a Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Figure 1 Percent change in brachial artery diameter in response to reactive hyperemia (RH) and sublingual nitroglycerin (NTG) in Group 1 (solid bars), and in the combination of Groups 2 and 3 (hatched bars). *p = 0.06, **p = 0.01.
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Figure 2 Percent change in brachial artery diameter in response to reactive hyperemia (RH), and sublingual nitroglycerin (NTG) in Group 1 (solid bars), Group 2 (open bars) and Group 3 (hatched bars). *p = 0.14; **p = 0.05.
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Figure 3 Change in brachial artery flow at baseline and in response to reactive hyperemia (RH) in Group 1 (solid bars), Group 2 (open bars) and Group 3 (hatched bars). There was no difference in brachial artery flow between groups.
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