This Article Abstract Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Gokce, N. Articles by Vita, J. A. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Gokce, N. Articles by Vita, J. A.

Predictive value of noninvasivelydetermined endothelial dysfunction for long-term cardiovascular events inpatients with peripheral vascular disease

Noyan Gokce, MD, FACC^*, John F. Keaney, Jr, MD, FACC^*, Liza M. Hunter, ANP^*, Michael T. Watkins, MD, Zoran S. Nedeljkovic, MD^*, James O. Menzoian, MD and Joseph A. Vita, MD, FACC^*,*

^* Evans Department of Medicine and Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Surgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

View larger version (10K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier plots showing survival according to brachial-artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD). The upper panel displays survival according to tertile of FMD. Overall, survival differed according to tertile of FMD (p = 0.0005). By multiple pairwise comparison, the survival curves for the lowest and middle tertiles did not differ (p = 0.87), but both differed from the highest tertile by log-rank test (p = 0.0003 and p = 0.0001, respectively). The middle panel displays survival for patients in the highest tertile and for the combination of the middle and lowest tertiles. The survival curves differed by log-rank test (p = 0.0001). In the lower panel, the analysis included only those events that occurred more than 30 days after vascular surgery and displays survival curves for patients in the highest tertile and for the combination of the middle and lowest tertiles. The survival curves differed by log-rank test (p = 0.006).