Cardiovascular determinants of carotid artery disease. The Rotterdam Elderly Study
| Autor: | Michiel L. Bots, D. E. Grobbee, A.M. de Bruyn, H. H. D. M. Van Vliet, P.T.V.M. de Jong, Albert Hofman, E. Briët, F.A. van de Ouweland, P.J. Breslau |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) |
| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
| Předmět: |
Carotid Artery Diseases
Male medicine.medical_specialty Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena Cohort Studies Risk Factors Internal medicine Carotid artery disease Internal Medicine Humans Medicine Carotid Stenosis Prospective Studies Risk factor Prospective cohort study Aged Ultrasonography Hemostasis business.industry Vascular disease Smoking Middle Aged Intracranial Arteriosclerosis medicine.disease Lipids Surgery Stenosis Blood pressure Hypertension Cardiology Female business Body mass index Follow-Up Studies Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Hypertension, 19, 717-720. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
| ISSN: | 1524-4563 0194-911X |
| DOI: | 10.1161/01.hyp.19.6.717 |
| Popis: | The objective of the present study was to assess the prevalence of moderate and severe stenosis of the right carotid artery in the elderly and its associations with smoking, blood pressure, serum lipid levels, and hemostatic factors. The Rotterdam Elderly Study is a recently started single-center prospective follow-up study of a cohort of 11,854 elderly people aged 55 years or more. In 1990, 954 participants of the Rotterdam Elderly Study underwent ultrasonic duplex examination of the right internal carotid artery. A reduction of the lumen diameter of 16-49% was found in 29 people (3.0%). Severe stenosis (50% or more) was observed in 13 people (1.4%). With differences in age, sex, and body mass index taken into account, subjects with moderate-to-severe carotid artery disease had, compared with participants without stenosis, lower mean high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels (mean difference, 0.10 mmol/l; 95% confidence interval, 0, 0.20) and higher mean fibrinogen levels (difference, 0.24 g/l; 0.04, 0.45). Among them were more people with hypertension (mean difference, 16%) and more current smokers (mean difference, 13%). Factor VIIc and factor VIIIc activity was higher in subjects with carotid artery disease, without, however, reaching statistical significance (mean difference, 0.06 IU/ml [-0.01, 0.12] and 0.21 IU/ml [-0.05, 0.47], respectively). Our data suggest that hypertension, smoking, and reduced serum high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, combined with unfavorable increases in hemostatic factors, may be related to carotid artery disease in the elderly. |
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