FMD values in study participants
The baseline brachial artery diameters were 4.02±0.66 and 4.07±0.68 mm
in patients and HCs, respectively (p>0.005). The mean FMD
% value was significantly lower in the patients than HCs (11.26±5.85%
vs 17.84±5.27% p<0.001). The Anova analysis showed that the
mean FMD% values were significantly different (p<0.001) among
four groups as (17.84±5.27%) in HCs, (12.25±5.17%) in group-1,
(11.94±6.19%) in group-2 and (6.85±2.26%) in group-3 patients.
According to post-hoc analysis, the differences between HCs and group-2,
and HCs and group-3 were significant (p=0.001, p<0.001,
respectively) whereas FMD% values were not statistically different
between group-1 and HCs. Patients in the group-3 revealed lower FMD
values than group-1 and group-2 (p=0.03) (Figure-1).