The association between anthropometric measures of adiposity and the progression of carotid atherosclerosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few reports are available on the contribution of general and abdominal obesity to the progression of carotid atherosclerosis in late adulthood. This study investigated the impact of four simple anthropometric measures of general and abdominal obesity on the progression of carotid atherosclerosis and the extent to which the association between adiposity and the progression of plaque burden is mediated by cardiometabolic markers.

Methods

Four thousand three hundred forty-five adults (median age 60) from the population-based Tromsø Study were followed over 7 years from the first carotid ultrasound screening to the next. The progression of carotid atherosclerosis was measured in three ways: incidence of plaques in previously plaque-free participants; change in the num

SUBMITTER: Imahori Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7079386 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature