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Monday Morning Afternoon MAY 21 3PostersPO-250: 1PO-251: 1PO-252: 1PO-253: 1PO-254: 3PO-255: 2sFlt-1 and P1GF Levels in Patients with Thalassemiaand Sickle Cell DiseaseIoannis Papassotiriou, 1 Alexandra Kouraklis-Symeonidis, 2 Filia Apostolakou, 1 Vassilios Ladis, 3Antonios Kattamis. 3 1 Department of ClinicalBiochemistry, “Aghia Sophia” Children’s Hospital,Athens, GR; 2 Thalassemia Unit, Hematology Division,Department of Internal Medicine, Patras UniversityHospital, Patras, GR and 3 First Department ofPediatrics, Athens University Medical School, Athens,GR.The Association of Plasma Adiponectin Levels andForearm Vascular Endothelial Function in HealthyVolunteers and Patients with Coronary ArteryDiseaseYehonatan Sharabi, 1,2 Michael Shechter, 2 IbrahimMarai, 2 Edna Peleg, 1 Ehud Grossman. 1,2 1 HypertensionUnit and Medicine D, Tel Hashomer, IL and 2 SacklerFaculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, IL.Associations of Obstructive Sleep Apnea withVascular Damage and Endothelial Dysfunction inHypertensivesC. Thomopoulos, C. Tsioufis, A. Kasiakogias, E.Andrikou, I. Andrikou, A. Mazaraki, D. Roussos,T. Makris, C. Stefanadis. First Cardiology Clinic,University of Athens, Hippokration Hospital, Athens,GR.Aerobic Capacity Correlates with UrinaryThromboxane Concentration in Pre-HypertensiveAfrican AmericansSheara T. Williamson, Deborah L. Feairheller, KeithM. Diaz, Kathleen Sturgeon, Praveen Veerabhadrappa,Deepti Varma, Michael Brown, Susan Jansen. TempleUniversity, Philadelphia, PA, US.Influence of ESA Therapy on Endothelial Functionand Pulse Wave Velocity in Renal TransplantRecipientsStefanie Reiermann, 1 Katrin Kliche, 1 Valerie Bartels, 1Lena Trappe, 1 Viola Malyar, 1 Uta Hillebrand, 1 BarbaraSuwelack, 1 Hermann Pavenstädt, 1 Martin Hausberg. 1,21 Internal Medicine D, University Hospital of Muenster,Muenster, DE and 2 Internal Medicine I, StädtischesKlinikum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, DE.Naproxcinod Produces Relaxation in HumanMammary Arteries Showing EndothelialDysfunctionDaniela Miglietta, 1 Alessandra Poggi, 1 BarbaraVergani, 2 Guido Gelpi, 3 Julio Padron, 1 Manlio Bolla†. 11 NicOx Research, Bresso, IT; 2 MIA Consortium,Monza, IT and 3 Sacco Hospital, Milan, IT.1 Pathobiology Track 2 Translational Track 3 Therapy Track147