Peripheral resistance artery blood flow in subjects with abnormal glucose tolerance is improved following enhanced external counterpulsation therapy
Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) improves resistance artery function in coronary artery disease patients. However, whether EECP elicits similar effects in persons with abnormal glucose tolerance (AGT) is unknown. Here we provide novel evidence that EECP significantly improves
resistance arterial function in the forearm of persons with AGT, whereas the calf only approached significance (P ≤ 0.10). These improvements were coincident with greater glycemic control, providing further insight into the potential mechanisms of EECP-mediated alterations in glycemia.
Keywords: EECP therapy; arterial function; fonction artérielle; insulin resistance; insulinorésistance; medicine; médecine; occlusion veineuse; physiologie; physiology; pléthysmographie; thérapie EECP; venous occlusion plethysmography
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT 06518, USA. 2: Department of Kinesiology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA. 3: Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
Publication date: 01 January 2014
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