Key result
Antenatal factors such as intra-uterine growth retardation, prematurity, maternal factors, and inflammation are associated with early cardiovascular changes measured by neonatal aIMT.
Why the study?
Can neonatal aortic intima-media thickness (aIMT) measurement identify early cardiovascular changes associated with antenatal factors?
Can neonatal aortic intima-media thickness (aIMT) measurement identify early cardiovascular changes associated with antenatal factors?
Neonatal aortic intima-media thickness measured by trans-abdominal ultrasound may serve as an early marker of subclinical atherosclerosis associated with antenatal risk factors.
UNLABELLED: Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory process that begins in early life. Improved identification of markers of early atherosclerosis via neonatal aortic intima-media thickness (aIMT) measurement may allow the development of interventions to prevent or reduce later cardiovascular disease. CONCLUSION: Using aIMT, studies have shown that antenatal factors such as intra-uterine growth retardation, prematurity, maternal factors and inflammation are associated with early cardiovascular changes.
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McCloskey et al. (2013) conducted a review in Subclinical atherosclerosis. Antenatal factors (intra-uterine growth retardation, prematurity, maternal factors, inflammation) was evaluated on Early cardiovascular changes measured by neonatal aortic intima-media thickness (aIMT). Antenatal factors such as intra-uterine growth retardation, prematurity, maternal factors, and inflammation are associated with early cardiovascular changes measured by neonatal aIMT.
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