1. Associations between measures of vascular structure and function and systemic circulating blood markers in humans
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Lisa M. Cotie, Maureen J. MacDonald, Austin J. Cameron, Stuart M. Phillips, Katharine D. Currie, Greg M. McGill, and Alison S. McFadden
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Cardiovascular Conditions, Disorders and Treatments ,0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pathology ,Physiology ,Immunology ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,vascular function ,Vascular health ,Coronary artery disease ,03 medical and health sciences ,vascular structure ,0302 clinical medicine ,Physiology (medical) ,medicine.artery ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Vascular structure ,Blood markers ,Brachial artery ,Original Research ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,3. Good health ,030104 developmental biology ,Cardiology ,Arterial stiffness ,Vasculature ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Type I collagen ,Vasoconstriction - Abstract
Examination of relationships between systemic markers and functional measures of arterial structure and function may assist in determining alternative indices of vascular regulation and designing and evaluating interventions to improve arterial structure and function. Twenty young healthy individuals, 20 older healthy men, and 26 individuals with coronary artery disease (CAD), comprising a spectrum of vascular health, participated. Systemic markers of vascular structure and function included: pro‐collagen type I C‐peptide (PIP) – marker of collagen synthesis, C‐telopeptide of type I collagen (CTX) – marker of collagen degradation, endothelin‐1 (ET‐1) ‐ vasoconstrictor, and interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) – inflammatory marker. Functional measures of arterial structure and function included carotid artery distensibility and brachial artery flow‐mediated dilation (FMD). Moderate positive relationships were observed between carotid distensibility and CTX and PIP (r = 0.57, P
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- 2016