Flow-mediated dilation and endothelial dysfunction by the metabolic syndrome and blood glucose stratified by gender.

Met Syn: metabolic syndrome; n: number of participants in each category; FMD: flow-mediated vasodilation; FMDadjusted :FMD adjusted for age; ED: endothelial dysfunction; CI: 95% confidence interval. Annotations as letters on FMD groups to show differences between groups and p-values, with differences as follows with ANOVA: a different from c, d, e, g and h (p<0.005); c different from d (p = 0.066) and trend for h (p = 0.057);d different from b and f (p = 0.036); f trend with h (p = 0.051).