ArticleJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
Vascular dysfunction measured by fingertip thermal monitoring is associated with the extent of myocardial perfusion defect.
Article in Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Beneficial effects of aged garlic extract and coenzyme Q10 on vascular elasticity and endothelial function: the FAITH randomized clinical trial.Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) · 2013Trial
- Prediction of coronary artery disease based on facial temperature information captured by non-contact infrared thermography.BMJ health & care informatics · 2024Article
- Elevated serum thyrotropin levels and endothelial dysfunction in a prospective hemodialysis cohort.Hemodialysis international. International Symposium on Home Hemodialysis · 2022Article
- Digital thermography and vascular involvement in β-thalassemia intermedia.Annals of hematology · 2021Article
- The association of nadir CD4-T cell count and endothelial dysfunction in a healthy HIV cohort without major cardiovascular risk factors.SAGE open medicine · 2020Article
- New Indices of Endothelial Function Measured by Digital Thermal Monitoring of Vascular Reactivity: Data from 6084 Patients Registry.International journal of vascular medicine · 2016Article
- Fingertip digital thermal monitoring: a fingerprint for cardiovascular disease?The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2010Article
- Can a simple fingertip temperature measurement predict a cardiac event?The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2009Article
- Low fingertip temperature rebound measured by digital thermal monitoring strongly correlates with the presence and extent of coronary artery disease diagnosed by 64-slice multi-detector computed tomography.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2009Article
- Serum adiponectin level is positively associated with vascular reactivity index by digital thermal monitoring in patients with coronary artery disease.Tzu chi medical journalArticle
- The endothelial cell in health and disease: its function, dysfunction, measurement and therapy.International journal of impotence researchReview
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
12 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundPrevious studies have shown that vascular dysfunction measured by digital thermal monitoring (DTM) during an arm-cuff reactive hyperemia procedure correlates with the severity of coronary artery disease measured by coronary artery calcium in asymptomatic patients. Current study investigates the correlation between DTM and abnormal myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI).
methodsAbout 116 consecutive patients with chest discomfort, age 57 +/- 10 years, underwent MPI, DTM and Framingham Risk Score (FRS) assessment. Fingertip temperature rebound (TR), DTM index of vascular reactivity, was assessed after a 2-minute arm-cuff reactive hyperemia test. The extent of myocardial perfusion defect was measured by summed stress score (SSS).
resultsTR decreased from SSS < 4 (1.61 +/- 0.15) to 4 < or = SSS < or = 8 (0.5 +/- 0.22) to 9 < or = SSS < or = 13 (0.26 +/- 0.15) to SSS > 13 (-0.37 +/- 0.19) (P = .0001). After adjusting for cardiac risk factors, the odds ratio of the lowest versus two upper tertiles of TR was 3.93 for SSS > or = 4 and 9.65 for SSS > or = 8 compared to SSS < 4. TR correlated well with SSS (r = -0.88, P = .0001). Addition of TR to FRS increased the area under the ROC curve to predict abnormal MPI, SSS > or = 4, from 0.65 to 0.84 (P < .05).
conclusionVascular dysfunction measured by DTM is associated with the extent of myocardial perfusion defect independent of age, gender, and cardiac risk factors.
Indexed as
Identifiers
19125310What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.