Tu-P7:168 Endothelial function in patients with significant coronary artery stenosis: Interrelation with coronary stenosis index, lipid and insulin level

Endothelial function in patients with an

Endothelial function in patients with and without diabetes mellitus with different degrees of coronary artery stenosis

✍ Iana I. Simova; Stefan V. Denchev; Simeon I. Dimitrov; Raia Ivanova 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 100 KB

## Abstract ## Purpose. To evaluate endothelial function using flow‐mediated dilatation (FMD) of the brachial artery in patients with and without diabetes mellitus (DM) with different degrees of coronary artery stenosis. ## Method. We investigated 293 patients, 69 (23.6%) of whom had DM. FMD and