Vascular reactivity
The main study objective was to determine whether 6 weeks of almond consumption would impact vascular reactivity. As shown in Table 3, we did not observe a significant effect of almonds incorporated to the NCEP step 1 diet or the NCEP step 1 diet alone on FMD, the principal pre-specified primary endpoint, or on blood pressure, nitroglycerin-mediated dilation, hyperemic blood flow, change in forearm blood flow, arterial stiffness, PWV, and lnPAT ratio.