Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Diagnosis and Prognosis in Cardiovascular Disease

Table 5

Aging and EPCs.

Study	Population	Effect on EPCs number
Heiss et al. [75]	Healthy	↓ in culture
Jie et al. [76]	Healthy	↓ CD34+/KDR+
Xia et al. [77]	Healthy	↓ CD34+/KDR+
Mandraffino et al. [78]	CVR	↓ CD34+

CVR: cardiovascular risk.