ArticleAtherosclerosis2015
Metabolic syndrome and incident peripheral artery disease - the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
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- 2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of US and Global Data From the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2025Review
- Age and Gender Difference in the Association of Metabolic Syndrome and Peripheral Artery Disease Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.International journal of vascular medicine · 2025Article
- 2024 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of US and Global Data From the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2024Review
- Different Impact of Metabolic Syndrome on the Risk of Incidence of the Peripheral Artery Disease and the Venous Thromboembolism: A Nationwide Longitudinal Cohort Study in South Korea.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics-2023 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2023Review
- Body Fat Distribution, Cardiometabolic Traits, and Risk of Major Lower-Extremity Arterial Disease in Postmenopausal Women.Diabetes care · 2022Article
- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics-2021 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2021Article
- Association Between Metabolic Syndrome and Peripheral Arterial Disease in Elderly Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2021Article
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- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics-2017 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2017Review
- Metabolic Syndrome Augments the Risk of Early Neurological Deterioration in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients Independent of Inflammatory Mediators: A Hospital-Based Prospective Study.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe evaluated whether metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with an increased incidence of lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) in community dwelling people free of clinical cardiovascular disease at baseline. We assessed whether higher levels of inflammatory biomarkers may mediate the association of MetS with incident PAD.
methodsMetS was defined at baseline as the presence of three or more of the following components: elevated waist circumference, triglycerides ≥150 mg/dL, reduced high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, blood pressure ≥130/85 mm Hg or taking blood pressure medication, and fasting glucose ≥100 mg/dL and <126 mg/dL. People with diabetes were excluded. Incident New PAD was defined among people with a normal ankle brachial index (ABI) at baseline (i.e. baseline ABI of 0.90 to 1.40) and consisted of one of the following outcomes during 3-year follow-up: ABI decline to < 0.90 combined with a decline ≥0.15 or medical record confirmed PAD outcome. Multivariable Poisson regression was used to estimate the association between MetS and incident PAD.
resultsAmong 4817 participants without PAD at baseline, 1382 (29%) had MetS. Adjusting for age, sex, race, smoking, physical activity, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, baseline ABI, and other confounders, 23/1382 (1.7%) people with MetS developed PAD vs. 30/3435 (0.87%) people without MetS (risk ratio = 1.78 [95% Confidence Interval (CI), 1.04 to 2.82], P = 0.031). Adjusting for C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, or interleukin-6 did not attenuate this association.
conclusionPeople free of clinical cardiovascular disease with MetS are at increased risk for PAD. Our findings suggest that this association is not mediated by inflammation.
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