期刊
CIRCULATION
卷 115, 期 18, 页码 2390-2397出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.678276
关键词
endothelium-derived factors; prognosis; cardiovascular diseases; aging; vasodilation
资金
- NHLBI NIH HHS [N01-HC-75150, T32 HL076132, N01-HC-55222, N01-HC-45133, N01-HC-35129, N01-HC-15103, N01-HC-85083, N01-HC-85086, N01-HC-85082, N01-HC-85085, N01-HC-85084, N01-HC-85081, N01-HC-85080, N01-HC-85079, N01-HL080295] Funding Source: Medline
Background - The relationship between impaired brachial flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and subsequent clinical cardiovascular events is not well established, especially in older adults whose FMD is often diminished. We assessed the hypothesis that FMD predicts incident cardiovascular events in a population-based cohort of older adults. Methods and Results - FMD was measured at the 1997 to 1998 Cardiovascular Health Study clinic visit in 2792 adults aged 72 to 98 years (82.7% white, 58.6% women) recruited at 4 clinic sites in the United States. Log-rank test and Cox proportional hazard models were used to examine the association between FMD and adjudicated cardiovascular events. A total of 674 subjects (24.1%) had an adjudicated event over the 5-year follow-up period. Event-free survival rates for cardiovascular events were significantly higher in subjects with FMD greater than the sex-specific medians than in subjects with FMD less than or equal to the sex-specific medians (78.3% versus 73.6%, log-rank P = 0.006). FMD remained a significant predictor of cardiovascular events after adjustment for age, gender, diabetes mellitus, cigarette smoking, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, baseline cardiovascular disease status, and total cholesterol ( hazard ratio, 0.91 [95% CI, 0.83 to 0.99], P = 0.02 per unit SD of FMD) but added only approximate to 1% to the prognostic accuracy of the best Cox model. Brachial artery diameter was also predictive of CV events in the adjusted Cox proportional hazard model (hazard ratio, 1.12 [95% CI, 1.02 to 1.28], P = 0.025) and also added approximate to 1% to the accuracy of our best Cox model. Conclusions - FMD is a predictor of future cardiovascular events but adds very little to the prognostic accuracy of traditional cardiovascular risk scores/factors in older adults. FMD and brachial artery diameter may have similar predictive values for cardiovascular events in older adults.
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