Aortic valve sclerosis is associatedwith systemic endothelial dysfunction
Elisa Poggianti, RN*,
Lucia Venneri, MD*,
Vlad Chubuchny, MD*,
Zoltan Jambrik, MD*,
Liz Andrea Baroncini, MD* and
Eugenio Picano, MD, PhD*,*
* Echocardiography Laboratory, Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy
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Figure 1 Endothelium-dependent flow-mediated dilation (FMD) of the brachial artery during reactive hyperemia (endothelium-dependent vasomotion) is significantly higher in subjects with no evidence of aortic valve sclerosis (AVS) than in patients with AVS. Data are expressed as the median value (25% and 75% and outliers, in a "box-and-whiskers" plot). *p < 0.002.
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