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Low Impact of Traditional Risk Factors on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: The ELSA-Brasil Cohort
- Source :
- Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), instacron:USP
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Objective— There is little information about how much traditional cardiovascular risk factors explain common carotid artery intima-media thickness (CCA-IMT) variance. We aimed to study to which extent CCA-IMT values are determined by traditional risk factors and which commonly used measurements of blood pressure, glucose metabolism, lipid profile, and adiposity contribute the most to this determination in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort baseline. Approach and Results— We analyzed 9792 individuals with complete data and CCA-IMT measurements. We built multiple linear regression models using mean left and right CCA-IMT as the dependent variable. All models were stratified by sex. We also analyzed individuals stratified by 10-year coronary heart disease risk and, in separate, those with no traditional risk factors. Main models’ R 2 varied between 0.141 and 0.373. The major part of the explained variance in CCA-IMT was because of age and race. Indicators of blood pressure, lipid profile, and adiposity that most frequently composed the best models were pulse pressure, low-density lipoprotein/high-density lipoprotein ratio, and neck circumference. The association between neck circumference and CCA-IMT persisted significant even after further adjustment for vessel sizes and body mass index. Indicators of glucose metabolism had smaller contribution. Conclusions— We found that >60% of CCA-IMT were not explained by demographic and traditional cardiovascular risk factors, which highlights the need to study novel risk factors. Pulse pressure, low-density lipoprotein/high-density lipoprotein ratio, and neck circumference were the most consistent contributors.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Longitudinal study
Urban Population
Carotid Artery, Common
Carotid Intima-Media Thickness
Risk Assessment
Body Mass Index
Age Distribution
Risk Factors
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
cardiovascular diseases
Sex Distribution
Aged
Retrospective Studies
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Middle Aged
Explained variation
Atherosclerosis
Prognosis
Pulse pressure
Endocrinology
Blood pressure
Intima-media thickness
Cohort
cardiovascular system
Cardiology
Female
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Lipid profile
business
Body mass index
Brazil
ESTUDOS LONGITUDINAIS
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15244636
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0048a5c34ba75d627c53bd029acf424e