Assessing the perceived quality of brachial artery Flow Mediated Dilation studies for inclusion in meta-analyses and systematic reviews: Description of data employed in the development of a scoring ;tool based on currently accepted guidelines.
Brachial artery Flow Mediated Dilation (FMD) is widely used as a non-invasive measure of endothelial function. Adherence to expert consensus guidelines on FMD measurement has been found to be of vital importance to obtain reproducible data. This article lists the literature data which was considered in the development of a tool to aid in the objective judgement of the extent to which published studies adhered to expert guidelines for FMD measurement. Application of this tool in a systematic review of FMD studies (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2016.03.011) (Greyling et al., 2016 [1]) indicated that adherence to expert consensus guidelines is strongly correlated to the reproducibility of FMD data.
Department of Physiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Unilever R&D Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, The Netherlands.
Arno
A
Greyling
Department of Physiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Anke C C M
AC
van Mil
Unilever R&D Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, The Netherlands; TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Peter L
PL
Zock
School of Sports Science, Exercise and Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.
Daniel J
DJ
Green
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Lorenzo
L
Ghiadoni
Department of Physiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Research institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Dick H
DH
Thijssen
Atherosclerosis; Cardiovascular disease; Endothelial function; Methodology; Reproducibility