Association Between Brachial Artery Reactivity and Cardiovascular Disease Status in an Elderly Cohort: the Cardiovascular Health Study

Overview

Journal Atherosclerosis

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2007 Aug 24

PMID 17714717

Citations 11

Authors

Joseph Yeboah

Kim Sutton-Tyrrell

Mary Ann McBurnie

Gregory L Burke

David M Herrington

John R Crouse

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Abstract

Background And Objectives: The association of brachial flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) status is unclear especially in older adults whose FMD is greatly diminished. We assessed the association of FMD and the presence or absence of subclinical and clinical CVD in a population based cohort of older adults.

Methods And Results: FMD was measured in 2971 adults aged 72-98 years (mean age 78.6 years) who participated in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to examine the association between FMD and CVD status (clinical, subclinical and free of CVD). Out of 2791 with complete data, 82.7% were Caucasians and 59% females. Seven hundred and forty-three were classified as having clinical CVD, 607 as subclinical CVD and 1441 as neither clinical CVD nor subclinical CVD (CVD free). FMD was higher in the CVD free group compared with either the clinical (3.13+/-0.05% vs 2.93+/-0.07%, p=0.025) or the subclinical CVD group (3.13+/-0.05% vs 2.95+/-0.08%, p=0.05) after adjusting for covariates. There was no significant difference between the FMD of subjects with clinical and subclinical CVD (2.93+/-0.07% vs 2.95+/-0.08%, p=0.84). Similar but inverted associations were observed between height adjusted brachial artery diameter (BAD) and CVD status. However, FMD and BAD had poor diagnostic accuracies for identifying older adults with subclinical CVD.

Conclusion: Among older adults, those with either clinical or subclinical CVD have lower FMD than CVD free subjects. BAD showed similar but inverted associations with CVD status in this cohort. FMD and BAD had poor diagnostic accuracies for identifying older adults with subclinical CVD.

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