BACKGROUND Although objective and subjective indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) are linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD), little is known about their relationship to endothelial dysfunction, which often precedes CVD. PURPOSE This study examined how objective and subjective SES relate to brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD). METHODS FMD was assessed in 72 healthy adults (mean...

Twelve apparently healthy and recently parturiated Murrah buffaloes, vaccinated with Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) + Haemorrhagic septicaemia (HS) combined vaccine at an organized farm along their newborn calves were inducted for detection of antibodies in serum colostrum against FMD virus (FMDV) serotypes O, A Asia-1, Pasteurella multocida using enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. The born to da...

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)-derived measures of tissue oxygen saturation (StO2) have been recently shown to significantly correlate with the widely used method for noninvasively assessing vascular endothelial function, flow-mediated dilation (FMD). The purpose of this study was to examine the intraday and interday reliability of the reperfusion slope of StO2 (slope 2 StO2) and compare it ...

A collaborative study initiated from the first annual European Union (EU) Concerted Action Group meeting (project PL 98-4032, 5-7 May 1999, Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals, Tübingen, Germany) was organised between the Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre in Brussels, the Federal Research Centre in Tübingen and the OIE/FAO World Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mout...

The socioeconomic impacts of foot and mouth disease (FMD) during 2011-12 outbreaks on large ruminant smallholders in Laos were investigated, including examination of data on gender, household financial status and farmer husbandry practices. A mix of participatory tools and survey questionnaires at the village and household level, respectively, were conducted, involving individual farmer intervi...

Background—Impairment of vascular endothelial function and increased intima-media thickness (IMT) are important early steps in atherogenesis. Longitudinal data on the effect of physical activity on endothelial function and IMT in healthy adolescents are lacking. We investigated prospectively the association of leisure-time physical activity with endothelial function (brachial artery flow-mediat...

Fibromuscular dysplasia(FMD) is a non-atherosclerotic arteriopathy affecting approximate all-sized vascular beds predominantly among women aging from 20 to 60 years. Iliac arterial FMD has not been precisely described regarding demographic, imaging and clinical features. We herein report the first case of bilateral common and internal iliac arterial FMD in China, with renal artery involvement d...

BACKGROUND Impairment of vascular endothelial function and increased intima-media thickness (IMT) are important early steps in atherogenesis. Longitudinal data on the effect of physical activity on endothelial function and IMT in healthy adolescents are lacking. We investigated prospectively the association of leisure-time physical activity with endothelial function (brachial artery flow-mediat...

Argentina suffered an extensive foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) epidemic between July 2000 and January 2002, 3 months after obtaining the official FMD-free without vaccination status conferred by the World Organization for Animal Health. This is one of the largest FMD epidemics controlled by implementation of a systematic mass vaccination campaign in an FMD-free country. In 2000, 124 herds were re...

The most common clinical manifestations of fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) are hypertension due to renal artery involvement and transient ischemic attack or stroke due to carotid or vertebral artery involvement. Patients with renal artery FMD and hypertension should undergo primary angioplasty with the goal of curing the hypertension. If the blood pressure fails to normalize following angioplasty...