Aortic Pulse-Wave Velocity and Its Relationship to Mortality in Diabetes and Glucose Intolerance

作者：Kennedy J. Cruickshank, Lisa Riste, Simon George Anderson, John S. Wright, Graham D. Dunn, Ray G. Gosling · 发表于：Circulation · 年份：2002 · DOI：10.1161/01.cir.0000033824.02722.f7 · 被引用次数：1534 · 研究领域：Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention、Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring、Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

BACKGROUND: Arterial distensibility measures, generally from pulse-wave velocity (PWV), are widely used with little knowledge of relationships to patient outcome. We tested whether aortic PWV predicts cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes and glucose-tolerance-tested (GTT) multiethnic population samples. METHODS AND RESULTS: Participants were randomly sampled from (1) a type 2 diabetes outpatient clinic and (2) primary care population registers, from which nondiabetic control subjects were given a GTT. Brachial blood pressures and Doppler-derived aortic PWV were measured. Mortality data over 10 years' follow-up were obtained. At any level of systolic blood pressure (SBP), aortic PWV was greater in subjects with diabetes than in controls. Mortality risk doubled in subjects with diabetes (hazard ratio 2.34, 95% CI 1.5 to 3.74) and in those with glucose intolerance (2.12, 95% CI 1.11 to 4.0) compared with controls. For all groups combined, age, sex, and SBP predicted mortality; the addition of PWV independently predicted all-cause and cardiovascular mortality (hazard ratio 1.08, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.14 for each 1 m/s increase) but displaced SBP. Glucose tolerance status and smoking were other independent contributors, with African-Caribbeans experiencing reduced mortality risk (hazard ratio 0.41, 95% CI 0.25 to 0.69). CONCLUSIONS: Aortic PWV is a powerful independent predictor of mortality in both diabetes and GTT population samples. In displacing SBP as a progno...