These results indicate that high melanin concentrations in skin exert no significant influence on the ability of LDF to monitor microvascular blood flow dynamics when using a laser diode of wavelength 780 nm. Hence LDF can help in the diagnosis and exploration of the pathogenesis of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, or malaria in darkly pigmented patients across sub-Saharan Africa.
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