ArticleArchives of medical sciences. Atherosclerotic diseases2021
Prevalence and risk factors for the development of abdominal aortic calcification among the US population: NHANES study.
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- Abdominal aortic calcification in patients newly diagnosed with essential thrombocythemia.Blood research · 2023Article
- Blood Cadmium and Abdominal Aortic Calcification in Population with Different Weight Statuses: a Population-Based Study.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2023Article
- The association of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and sedentary behaviour with abdominal aortic calcification.Journal of translational medicine · 2023Article
- The Correlation between the Vascular Calcification Score of the Coronary Artery and the Abdominal Aorta in Patients with Psoriasis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The association between weight-adjusted-waist index and abdominal aortic calcification in adults aged ≥ 40 years: results from NHANES 2013-2014.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Association between healthy eating index-2015 and abdominal aortic calcification among US Adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionAbdominal aortic calcification (AAC) is an important marker of subclinical cardiovascular disease and its prognosis. Advanced age, hypertension, smoking, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, and higher truncal fat are known markers of AAC in studies conducted around the world. However, literature for these risk factors and their co-occurrence is limited in the US. MATERIAL AND
methodsWe used data from dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (Hologic, v4.0) to detect the occurrence of AAC in a sample population (
resultsWe found the national prevalence of AAC in the US to be 28.8%. After adjusting for confounders, persons with hypertension: OR = 1.66 (95% CI: 1.30-2.13) and smokers: OR = 1.63 (95% CI: 1.24-2.14) were more likely to have AAC compared to their respective counterparts. Increasing age was positively associated with AAC: OR = 1.06 (95% CI: 1.04-1.08). There was a statistically significant negative association between body mass index (BMI) and AAC, more so in smokers than in non-smokers: OR = 0.97 (95% CI: 0.94-0.97). We did not observe any statistically significant association between diabetes and AAC.
conclusionsAdvanced age, smoking, and hypertension was associated with increased occurrence of AAC. Paradoxically, increasing BMI was inversely associated with AAC and there was no statistically significant association between total body and trunk fat percentages and AAC. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to establish the nationwide prevalence and associated factors in the US.
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