4.2. Measurement of Inflammation Markers, Endothelial Dysfunction, and Arterial Stiffness
peripheral venous catheter, arterial stiffness
BLOOD, ARTERIAL STIFFNESS
For the blood tests, blood was taken from the test persons at two points in time: once at the beginning of the measurements directly before the consumption of the respective device (T0) and 120 min after the consumption of the device (T120). Blood was taken via a peripheral venous catheter inserted at the beginning of the respective series of measurements. The blood samples for determining a large blood count were sent to the clinic’s own laboratory for further analysis. Further blood samples were prepared for the ELISA tests and multiplex analysis. The QuantikineThe Micro + SmokerlyzerThe measurement of the parameters of arterial stiffness and peripheral as well as central hemodynamics was conducted by the Mobil-O-Graph