Aerobic Fitness As a Predictor of Conduit, Resistance And, Microvascular Arterial Function

In our cohort, aerobic fitness was associated with microvascular function when age, BMI, and sex were included in the model. Only age was associated with conduit artery function, and only sex was associated with resistance arterial function. Each segment of the arterial tree was affected differently by VO , age, and sex. These data show the importance of including several potentially important variables when investigating the association between VO and arterial function.