Why the study?
Does age influence reactive hyperaemia in the human calf?
Population
40 subjects divided into four groups of ten, with mean ages of 6, 13, 24, and 57 years.
Comparison
Strain gauge plethysmography to measure… vs Comparison across four different age groups
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Minimal age effect on calf reactive hyperaemia; leaves open postischaemic resistance as preferred vasodilation metric across blood pressures.
Does age influence reactive hyperaemia in the human calf?
Age has minor importance in the clinical use of the reactive hyperaemia test in the calf, but postischaemic peripheral resistance is a more accurate measure of vasodilation for comparing subjects with different blood pressures.
A Kroese (1977) studied this question.
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