Cardiovascular risk factors as determinants of retinal and skin microvascular function: The Maastricht Study.
Alfons J H M HoubenAlfons J H M HoubenTos T J M BerendschotJan S A G SchoutenAbraham A KroonCarla J H van der KallenRonald M A HenryAnnemarie KosterPieter C DagnelieNicolaas C SchaperMiranda T SchramCoen D A StehouwerPublished in: PloS one (2017)
Associations between cardiovascular risk factors and retinal and skin microvascular function show a pattern that is partly similar to the associations between cardiovascular risk factors and macrovascular function. Impairment of microvascular function may constitute a pathway through which an adverse cardiovascular risk factor pattern may increase risk of diseases that are partly or wholly of microvascular origin.