In this editorial in the Journal, Drs. Lian and Keaney comment on the study by Matsuzawa et al (Matsuzawa Y, Sugiyama S, Sugamura K, et al. Digital assessment of endothelial function and ischemic heart disease in women. J Am Coll Cardiol 2010;55:1688 –96.), noting that EndoPAT may serve as a simple measure to integrate risk factor burden and to reflect microvascular endothelial function, and that it has the potential for wide clinical application, should it be found to predict risk of future cardiac events. |
