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Published in final edited form as: WMJ. 2009 Aug;108(5):250–252.

Table 2.

Crude Effects of Blood and Hair (Hg levels on Clinical Measures of Endothelial Function and Blood Pressure

	Blood Hg Exposed			Hair Hg Exposed

	No	Yes^a	P-value	No	Yes^a	P-value
FMD (%)	5.8	6.7	0.48	6.1	5.7	0.77
MCAR (%)	5.1	4.7	0.56	5.1	4.7	0.58
Systolic BP (mm Hg)	122.8	125.5	0.41	122.6	126.0	0.29
Diastolic BP (mm Hg)	79.3	78.7	0.81	79.0	79.4	0.86
Hypertension (%)	49.3	66.7	0.14	79.2	44.2	<0.01

^a

≥496 ng/g for hair and ≥2.01 µg/L for blood Hg.

Abbreviations: Hg, mercury; BP, blood pressure; FMD, brachial artery flow mediated dilation; MCAR, middle cerebral artery reactivity to CO₂.