CRP and uremia: After Spearman correlation tests, a positive correlation was found between reactive hyperemic index and systolic blood pressure (rho=0.753 p=0.0002), mean blood pressure (rho= 0.660 p= 0.002), hs-CRP (rho= 0.486 p= 0.035) and uremia (rho= 0.476 p= 0.039).