Race/Ethnic and Sex Differences in Large and Small Artery Elasticity – Results of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

Reduction in arterial elasticity marks progression toward cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Variability in arterial elasticity may help account for race/ethnic and gender differences in cardiovascular risk. Cross-sectional study. Whites, African Americans, Hispanics and Chinese aged 45-84 year...

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Published in:Ethnicity & disease 2009-06, Vol.19 (3), p.243-250
Main Authors: Duprez, DanielA, Jacobs, DavidR, Lutsey, Pamela L., Herrington, David, Prime, Darryl, Ouyang, Pamela, Barr, R. Graham, Bluemke, David A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
African Americans - statistics & numerical data
Age
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Arteries - physiopathology
Asian Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data
Asians
Atherosclerosis - diagnosis
Atherosclerosis - ethnology
Atherosclerosis - physiopathology
Body Height
Caucasians
Cross-Sectional Studies
Elasticity
European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data
Female
Health and Medicine
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Manometry
Medical research
Men
Middle Aged
Minority & ethnic groups
Original Reports: Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Factors
Sex Factors
United States
United States - epidemiology
Women
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Summary:Reduction in arterial elasticity marks progression toward cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Variability in arterial elasticity may help account for race/ethnic and gender differences in cardiovascular risk. Cross-sectional study. Whites, African Americans, Hispanics and Chinese aged 45-84 years free of clinically recognized cardiovascular disease were recruited in six US communities. We examined 3,316 women and 3,020 men according to race/ethnicity and sex. Large (LAE) and small artery (SAE) elasticity, derived from radial artery diastolic pulse wave contour registration in all subjects in a supine position using tonometry. LAE and SAE were adjusted for ethnicity, age, clinical site, height, heart rate, blood pressure, antihypertensive medication and body mass index, diabetes, smoking, and circulating lipids. Much of the sex difference in arterial elasticity was explained by height. After adjustment, LAE did not differ by race/ ethnicity, but mean SAE in African Americans was 4.2 mL/mm Hg x 100 and 4.4 mL/ mm Hg x 100 in Hispanics compared to means of 4.6 mL/mm Hg x 100 in Whites, and 4.8 mL/mm Hg x 100 in Chinese. Reduced SAE may indicate earlier vascular disease in African Americans and Hispanics than other groups.
ISSN:1049-510X