. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 23.

Published in final edited form as: Microcirculation. 2009 Apr;16(3):203–212. doi: 10.1080/10739680802502423

Table 2.

Skeletal muscle capillarization in chronic stroke subjects and controls with normal (NGT) and impaired (IGT) glucose tolerance

	Stroke subjects(n = 12)		Controls

	Hemiparetic	Nonparetic	IGT (n = 12)	NGT (n = 12)
Overall share factor	3.09 ± 0.04^§	2.98 ± 0.05	3.05 ± 0.03	2.99 ± 0.05
Type I	3.12 ± 0.07^§^,^†	2.94 ± 0.04	3.01 ± 0.03	2.96 ± 0.05
Type IIa	3.07 ± 0.04	3.02 ± 0.05	3.08 ± 0.05	3.00±0.06
Type IIx	3.01 ± 0.04	3.09 ± 0.04	3.15 ± 0.05	3.14 ± 0.05
Overall capillary contacts	3.38 ± 0.24 ^‖^,^‡	4.51 ± 0.36	4.02 ± 0.22	4.57 ± 0.23
Type I	3.83 ± 0.22^§^,^†	4.85 ± 0.38	4.47 ± 0.23	4.84 ± 0.25
Type IIa	3.23 ± 0.20^*^,^‡	4.06 ± 0.41	3.72 ±.022	4.28 ± 0.25
Type IIx	2.97 ± 0.27^*	3.43 ± 0.38	3.17 ± 0.15	3.52 ± 0.23
Overall individual capillary to fiber ratio	1.16 ± 0.09^‖^,^‡	1.62 ± 0.16	1.39 ± 0.09	1.63 ± 0.11
Type I	1.31 ± 0.09^§^,^‡	1.76 ± 0.17	1.57 ± 0.10	1.74 ± 0.11
Type IIa	1.10 ± 0.08^*^,^‡	1.44 ± 0.17	1.27 ± 0.10	1.50 ± 0.11
Type IIx	1.02 ± 0.10^*	1.16 ± 0.14	1.05 ± 0.10	1.19 ± 0.09

Data are presented as mean±SEM.

^*,§,‖

Significant difference, compared to nonparetic leg muscle (*P <0.05, ^§P <0.01, ^‖P <0.001);

^†,‡

significant difference, compared to NGT control muscle (^†P <0.05, ^‡P <0.01).