Table 6.

Brachial artery characteristics before and after an ischaemia–reperfusion injury

	rIPC + exercise		rIPC only		LMM
	Week 0	Week 8	Week 0	Week 8	Condition
Baseline
Resting diameter (mm)	4.0 ± 0.9	4.1 ± 1.0	4.2 ± 0.7	4.1 ± 0.8	0.40
FMD%	6.5 ± 3.2	8.1 ± 3.2	6.1 ± 1.2	6.4 ± 1.6	0.65
Scaled FMD%	6.5 ± 2.6	7.9 ± 1.3	6.1 ± 2.4	6.3 ± 2.3	0.35
Time to peak (s)	77 ± 32	67 ± 29	72 ± 24	63 ± 26	0.83
Shear AUC (103)	28.2 ± 15.0	23.3 ± 14.8	22.2 ± 14.9	22.0 ± 14.2	0.64
Post ischaemia–reperfusion injury
Resting diameter (mm)	4.4 ± 1.0	4.4 ± 1.0	4.3 ± 0.7	4.6 ± 0.9	0.95
FMD%	1.9 ± 3.3	1.4 ± 4.1	1.0 ± 2.5	0.8 ± 1.2	0.50
Scaled FMD%	1.9 ± 2.9	1.3 ± 3.7	1.0 ± 3.0	1.0 ± 3.0	0.56
Time to peak (s)	79 ± 35	73 ± 32	63 ± 39	62 ± 33	0.87
Shear AUC (103)	21.2 ± 7.1	19.0 ± 5.7	13.8 ± 10.4	12.1 ± 7.1	0.24

Data presented as means ± SD

FMD flow-mediated dilation, AUC area under the curve, LMM linear mixed model