Intima-Media Thickness Is Linearly and Continuously Associated With Systolic Blood Pressure in a Population-Based Cohort (STANISLAS Cohort Study).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) is a noninvasive marker of cardiovascular risk. The cIMT may be increased in patients with harmonisation, but little is known regarding the functional form of the association between blood pressure (BP) and cIMT in hypertensive and nonhypertensive persons. We aimed to define the shape of the association between BP and cIMT.

Methods and results

We studied cIMT and ambulatory BP monitoring data from a single-center, cross-sectional, population-based study involving 696 adult participants from the STANISLAS cohort, a familial longitudinal cohort from the Nancy region of France. Participants with a history of hypertension were more likely to have a cIMT >900 μm and had higher mean cIMT (both P<0.001). The risk of cIMT >900 μm incr

SUBMITTER: Ferreira JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4937282 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature