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ArticleHeart and vessels2016

Chronotropic response during treadmill exercise and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis after adjusting for the calibrated SCORE risk classification: a cross-sectional study.

Catherine Liontou, Christina Chrysohoou, John Skoumas, Demosthenes B Panagiotakos, Christos Pitsavos, Christodoulos Stefanadis

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Article in Heart and vessels, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Catherine LiontouFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, 114 Vasilissis Sofias Street, 115 27, Athens, Greece. k.liontou@gmail.com.
Christina ChrysohoouFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, 114 Vasilissis Sofias Street, 115 27, Athens, Greece.
John SkoumasFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, 114 Vasilissis Sofias Street, 115 27, Athens, Greece.
Demosthenes B PanagiotakosDepartment of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
Christos PitsavosFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, 114 Vasilissis Sofias Street, 115 27, Athens, Greece.
Christodoulos StefanadisFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, 114 Vasilissis Sofias Street, 115 27, Athens, Greece.
Hippocration General Hospital · GRHarokopio University of Athens · GR

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Abstract

Carotid atherosclerosis (CA) and chronotropic incompetence (CI) during exercise are two independent cardiovascular risk factors. Aim of the current study was to investigate the possible association between them, in apparently healthy individuals, after adjusting for the 10-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk score. This cross-sectional study consisted of 139 apparently healthy subjects, 40-65 years old, who underwent treadmill exercise test (Bruce protocol used), which showed no evidence of ischemia. Heart rate reserve (HR reserve) was calculated to assess chronotropic response; a value of ≤ 0.80 is considered CI. CA was assessed by the presence of carotid plaque(s) in common and internal carotid arteries and carotid bulb bilaterally, using B-mode ultrasound. A calibrated version of SCORE (i.e., HellenicSCORE) was used to estimate the 10-year fatal CVD risk; participants were classified into low-, moderate- or high-risk group. CI was present in 7.9 % and CA in 18.7 % of the participants. After adjusting for 10-year CVD risk and other key confounders, odds of CA were 8.6 times higher in subjects with CI compared to their counterparts with normal chronotropic response to exercise. The results of the study indicate that CI during exercise can lead to high clinical suspicion of CA in apparently healthy individuals.

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Exercise TestHeart RateAdultAgedAsymptomatic DiseasesCarotid ArteriesCarotid Artery DiseasesCarotid Intima-Media ThicknessCross-Sectional StudiesExercise ToleranceFemaleHeart DiseasesHumansMaleMiddle AgedPlaque, AtheroscleroticCarotid atherosclerosisChronotropic incompetenceExercise

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