Vascular Aging across the Menopause Transition in Healthy Women

Figure 6

Carotid artery compliance during systemic saline (control; black bars) and ascorbic acid (antioxidant; white bars) infusions in premenopausal (pre), early perimenopausal (peri), late perimenopausal, and postmenopausal (post) women. ^∗𝑃<0.05 versus premenopausal women. ^†𝑃<0.05 versus saline of the same group. Adapted from Hildreth et al. [6].