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- Normalization of echocardiographic measurements based on body surface area can misclassify patients with obesity or sarcopenia, highlighting the need for better alternative normalization methods.
- A study involving 3032 individuals assessed echocardiographic parameters, focusing on a subgroup of 608 without cardiopulmonary diseases to derive normative values based on various body size indexation methods.
- The findings indicate that body surface area and height provided more consistent results across different racial and ethnic groups, with height showing the least variability between sexes.
Background Immune cells are key regulators of the vascular inflammatory response characteristic of hypertension. In hypertensive rodents, regulatory T lymphocytes (Treg, CD 4 CD 25) prevented vascular injury, cardiac damage, and endothelial dysfunction of mesenteric arteries. Whether Treg modulate the cerebrovascular damage induced by hypertension is unknown.
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