Vascular inflammation and aortic stiffness: potential mechanisms of increased vascular risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Vascular and systemic inflammation There was a borderline significant positive correlation between abdominal aortic TBR with both WCC and neutrophils ( r = + 0.18, p = 0.05 and r = + 0.17, p = 0.06) in the whole cohort only.

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