Table 5.

Correlations between changes in walking outcomes and brachial artery measures in the exercise group (n = 92).

	BA resting blood flow		BA FMD		BA diameter		BA IMT		BA GSM		BA entropy		BA GLDS-CON
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
	6-minute walk distance	0.23	0.032	0.24	0.022	0.29	0.005	0.03	0.773	0.07	0.526	0.21	0.047	0.22	0.041
Total treadmill time	−0.09	0.409	0.11	0.305	0.13	0.207	−0.06	0.579	−0.01	0.957	−0.02	0.861	0.03	0.753
BA resting blood flow			−0.02	0.872	0.42	< 0.001	−0.02	0.865	0.12	0.277	0.06	0.566	0.01	0.905
BA FMD					−0.35	0.001	0.09	0.421	0.02	0.843	0.01	0.967	−0.03	0.780
BA diameter							0.12	0.272	0.01	0.988	0.14	0.194	0.18	0.095
BA IMT									−0.14	0.197	0.14	0.199	−0.12	0.266
BA GSM											0.28	0.008	0.33	0.002
BA entropy													0.56	< 0.0001

Bold type represents p-value < 0.05.

BA, brachial artery; FMD, flow-mediated vasodilation; GLDS-CON, gray-level difference statistic-contrast; GSM, grayscale median; IMT, intima–media thickness.