Why the study?
Does hand intermittent pneumatic compression induce vasodilation and enhanced perfusion in young and older subjects, including those with type 2 diabetes mellitus?
Does hand intermittent pneumatic compression induce vasodilation and enhanced perfusion in young and older subjects, including those with type 2 diabetes mellitus?
Hand intermittent pneumatic compression improves skin microcirculation and perfusion independent of age and diabetes status.
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Hypothesis-generating for hand IPC in skin microcirculation across ages and diabetes; randomized trials needed before clinical adoption.
This study demonstrates that hand intermittent pneumatic compression evokes transitory hypoxic stimuli in distal finger skin microcirculation inducing vasodilation of arterial inflow vessels, enhanced perfusion, and maximum capillary recruitment in young and older subjects and older subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Enhanced shear stress in the microcirculation did not appear to induce local skin vasodilation.
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