The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 154, Issue 6 , Pages 901-905 , June 2009

Endothelial Pulse Amplitude Testing: Feasibility and Reproducibility in Adolescents

Received 4 September 2008 ,Revised 26 November 2008 ,Accepted 17 December 2008.

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 This study was supported, in part, by the Higgins Family Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Research Funds, by funding from the Maram and Carpenter families, the Ciaranello Family Fund, and the Children's Hospital Boston General Clinic Research Center through a grant (#MO1-RR02172) from the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health. Dr de Ferranti was supported by an Eleanor and Miles Shore scholarship and by a National Institutes of Health grant from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K23HL85308-2). The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

PII: S0022-3476(08)01139-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.12.028

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 154, Issue 6 , Pages 901-905 , June 2009

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