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February 1, 2012BMC Cardiovascular DisordersOpen Access

Abdominal obesity vs general obesity for identifying arterial stiffness, subclinical atherosclerosis and wave reflection in healthy, diabetics and hypertensive

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Population

305 individuals including diabetics (32.8%), hypertensive subjects (37.0%), and healthy individuals (30.2%)

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

JRJosé I. Recio-RodríguezUniversidad de SalamancaMGManuel A. Gómez‐MarcosUniversidad de SalamancaMPMaría C. Patino‐AlonsoUniversidad de Salamanca

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Implication

Abdominal obesity metrics may refine subclinical vascular risk assessment beyond BMI; leaves open causal impact on outcomes.

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Population
305 individuals including diabetics (32.8%), hypertensive subjects (37.0%), and healthy individuals (30.2%)
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Outcome
Arterial stiffness assessed by pulse wave velocity (PWV) and subclinical atherosclerosis assessed by intima-media thickness of the common carotid artery (C-IMT)surrogate

Measures of abdominal obesity (waist-to-height ratio and waist circumference) correlate better with arterial stiffness and subclinical atherosclerosis than BMI, independent of diabetes or hypertension.

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Recio-Rodríguez et al. (2012) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7d7625166e996abdd5b1abhttps://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-12-3

Topics

Hypertension management
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