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Endothelial function predicts progression of carotid intima-media thickness

Halcox, Julian P. J., Donald, Ann E., Ellins, Elizabeth Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5164-6416, Witte, Daniel R., Shipley, Martin J., Brunner, Eric J., Marmot, Michael G. and Deanfield, John E. 2009. Endothelial function predicts progression of carotid intima-media thickness. Circulation 119 (7) , pp. 1005-1012. 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.765701

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Abstract

Background— Endothelial dysfunction develops early and has been shown to predict the development of clinical complications of atherosclerosis. However, the relationship between early endothelial dysfunction and the progression of arterial disease in the general population is unknown. We investigated endothelial dysfunction, risk factors, and progression of carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) in late-middle-aged individuals at low to intermediate cardiovascular risk in a prospective study between 1997 and 2005. Methods and Results— Brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation and cIMT were measured in 213 nonsmoking British civil servants recruited from a prospective cohort (Whitehall II study). Participants (age, 45 to 66 years) were free of clinical cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus. Risk factors and Framingham Risk Score were determined at baseline. cIMT was repeated 6.2±0.4 years later. At baseline, age, blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and Framingham Risk Score correlated with cIMT. However, only flow-mediated dilatation, not risk factors or Framingham Risk Score, was associated with average annual progression of cIMT. This relationship remained significant after adjustment for risk factors whether entered as separate variables or as Framingham Risk Score. Further adjustment for waist circumference, triglycerides, and employment grade had no significant effect. Conclusions— Systemic endothelial function was associated with progression of preclinical carotid arterial disease over a 6-year period and was more closely related to cIMT changes than conventional risk factors. Thus, the relationship between endothelial dysfunction and adverse outcome is likely to be due not only to destabilization of established disease in high-risk populations but also to its impact on the evolution of the atherosclerotic substrate. Flow-mediated dilatation testing provides an integrated vascular measure that may aid the prediction of structural disease evolution and represents a potential short- to intermediate-term outcome measure for evaluation of preventive treatment strategies.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
Uncontrolled Keywords: atherosclerosis; endothelium; nitric oxide; risk factors
Additional Information: Pdf uploaded in accordance with publisher's policy at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0009-7322/ (accessed 19/02/2014).
Publisher: American Heart Association
ISSN: 0009-7322
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 30 March 2016
Last Modified: 05 May 2023 16:38
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/27711

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