TABLE 2.

Data of the brachial artery vascular function at baseline, following 14 days of physical inactivity and 14 days resumption to habitual activity.

	Baseline	Step-reduction	Resuming activity	P	d
Flow-mediated dilation; FMD (%)	8.1 (6.8, 9.3)	6.2 (5.2, 7.3)	7.6 (6.5, 8.8)	0.04	0.117
Baseline diameter (mm)	0.36 (0.34, 0.39)	0.34 (0.32, 0.37)	0.36 (0.33, 0.38)	0.07	0.102
Peak diameter (mm)	0.39 (0.36, 0.42)	0.37 (0.35, 0.40)	0.39 (0.36, 0.41)	0.07	0.106
Shear rate AUC (s–1 × 103)	25331 (22862, 32089)	26954 (22862, 31047)	26478 (20757, 32199)	0.86	0.005
Time to peak (s)	58.5 (47.2, 69.8)	64.1 (56.1, 72.2)	65.3 (56.4, 47.1)	0.41	0.031