Benfotiamine pretreatment (3 days)at high dosage (1050 mg/day) prevents in healthy subjects smoking-induced vascular dysfunction assessed by ultrasound flow mediated dilatation of the brachial artery.
Benfotiamine pretreatment (3 days)at high dosage (1050 mg/day) prevents in healthy subjects smoking-induced vascular dysfunction assessed by ultrasound flow mediated dilatation (FMD) of the brachial arteryand laboratory parameters (adhesion molecules).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
20
Heart and Diabetes Center
Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Flow mediated dilatation
Time frame: 3 days
Laboratory markers of endothelial function
Time frame: 3 days
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