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Distribution of the Ankle-Brachial Index and Associated Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Population of Middle-Aged and Elderly Koreans
The Doppler ankle-brachial pressure index (ABI) is an objective and efficient tool that can be used to determine the presence and severity of peripheral arterial disease in the lower extremities. The ABI value is inversely associated with other cardiovascular risk factors. To date, there have been n...
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author | Kweon, Sun-Seog Shin, Min-Ho Park, Kyeong-Soo Nam, Hae-Sung Jeong, Seul-Ki Ryu, So-Yeon Chung, Eun-Kyung Choi, Jin-Su |
author_facet | Kweon, Sun-Seog Shin, Min-Ho Park, Kyeong-Soo Nam, Hae-Sung Jeong, Seul-Ki Ryu, So-Yeon Chung, Eun-Kyung Choi, Jin-Su |
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description | The Doppler ankle-brachial pressure index (ABI) is an objective and efficient tool that can be used to determine the presence and severity of peripheral arterial disease in the lower extremities. The ABI value is inversely associated with other cardiovascular risk factors. To date, there have been no studies of the distribution of ABI in Korea. We performed a cross-sectional study of 1,943 subjects (681 men and 1,262 women; 45-74 yr old) in Namwon, Korea. The prevalence of a low ABI (<0.90) was 2.2% in men and 1.8% in women, and a high ABI (≥1.30) was prevalent in 3.1% of men and 0.8% of women. Age, smoking habits, waist circumference, hypertension, and blood pressure were associated with ABI values in both sexes. The presence of carotid plaques was associated with ABI values only in men, whereas pulse pressure was associated with ABI values only in women (p<0.05). Although the prevalence of a low ABI in the present study was lower than those reported previously for Western populations and Japanese men, our results suggest that the ABI might be used as an indicator of cardiovascular risk factors in adult Koreans. |
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spelling | pubmed-27821892009-11-30 Distribution of the Ankle-Brachial Index and Associated Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Population of Middle-Aged and Elderly Koreans Kweon, Sun-Seog Shin, Min-Ho Park, Kyeong-Soo Nam, Hae-Sung Jeong, Seul-Ki Ryu, So-Yeon Chung, Eun-Kyung Choi, Jin-Su J Korean Med Sci Original Article The Doppler ankle-brachial pressure index (ABI) is an objective and efficient tool that can be used to determine the presence and severity of peripheral arterial disease in the lower extremities. The ABI value is inversely associated with other cardiovascular risk factors. To date, there have been no studies of the distribution of ABI in Korea. We performed a cross-sectional study of 1,943 subjects (681 men and 1,262 women; 45-74 yr old) in Namwon, Korea. The prevalence of a low ABI (<0.90) was 2.2% in men and 1.8% in women, and a high ABI (≥1.30) was prevalent in 3.1% of men and 0.8% of women. Age, smoking habits, waist circumference, hypertension, and blood pressure were associated with ABI values in both sexes. The presence of carotid plaques was associated with ABI values only in men, whereas pulse pressure was associated with ABI values only in women (p<0.05). Although the prevalence of a low ABI in the present study was lower than those reported previously for Western populations and Japanese men, our results suggest that the ABI might be used as an indicator of cardiovascular risk factors in adult Koreans. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2005-06 2005-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2782189/ /pubmed/15953855 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2005.20.3.373 Text en Copyright © 2005 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Kweon, Sun-Seog Shin, Min-Ho Park, Kyeong-Soo Nam, Hae-Sung Jeong, Seul-Ki Ryu, So-Yeon Chung, Eun-Kyung Choi, Jin-Su Distribution of the Ankle-Brachial Index and Associated Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Population of Middle-Aged and Elderly Koreans |
title | Distribution of the Ankle-Brachial Index and Associated Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Population of Middle-Aged and Elderly Koreans |
title_full | Distribution of the Ankle-Brachial Index and Associated Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Population of Middle-Aged and Elderly Koreans |
title_fullStr | Distribution of the Ankle-Brachial Index and Associated Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Population of Middle-Aged and Elderly Koreans |
title_full_unstemmed | Distribution of the Ankle-Brachial Index and Associated Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Population of Middle-Aged and Elderly Koreans |
title_short | Distribution of the Ankle-Brachial Index and Associated Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Population of Middle-Aged and Elderly Koreans |
title_sort | distribution of the ankle-brachial index and associated cardiovascular risk factors in a population of middle-aged and elderly koreans |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2782189/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15953855 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2005.20.3.373 |
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