Association of Vascular Health Measures and Physical Function: A Prospective Analysis in the Framingham Heart Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dysfunction in blood vessel dynamics may contribute to changes in muscle measures. Therefore, we examined associations of vascular health measures with grip strength and gait speed in adults from the Framingham Heart Study.

Methods

The cross-sectional study (1998-2001) included participants with 1 measure of grip strength (kg, dynamometer) or gait speed (4-m walk, m/s) and at least 1 measure of aortic stiffness (carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, brachial pulse pressure, and brachial flow pulsatility index) or brachial artery structure and function (resting flow velocity, resting brachial artery diameter, flow-mediated dilation %, hyperemic brachial blood flow velocity, and mean arterial pressure [MAP]) assessed by tonometry and brachial artery ultrasound. The l

SUBMITTER: Sahni S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10329234 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature