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Nailfold videocapillaroscopy was used for direct visualization of nutritive capillaries, assessing functional capillary density, red blood cell velocity (RBCV) at rest and peak after 1 min of arterial occlusion (RBCV<jats:sub>max<\/jats:sub>), and the time taken to reach RBCV<jats:sub>max<\/jats:sub>(TRBCV<jats:sub>max<\/jats:sub>).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 35% of subjects had metabolic syndrome, 77% were overweight\/obese, and 9.5% had impaired fasting glucose. PCA was able to recognize that functional microvascular variables and clinical-laboratorial-anthropometrical measurements had a similar variation. The first five principal components explained most of the intrinsic variation of the data. For example, principal component 1 was associated with BMI, waist circumference, systolic BP, diastolic BP, insulin, TG, CRP, and TRBCV<jats:sub>max<\/jats:sub>varying in the same way. Principal component 1 also showed a strong association among HDL-c, RBCV, and RBCV<jats:sub>max<\/jats:sub>, but in the opposite way. Principal component 3 was associated only with microvascular variables in the same way (functional capillary density, RBCV and RBCV<jats:sub>max<\/jats:sub>). 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