A Vishnu, J Choo, K H Masaki, R H Mackey, E Barinas-Mitchell, C Shin, B J Willcox, A El-Saed, T B Seto, A Fujiyoshi, K Miura, S Lee, K Sutton-Tyrrell, L H Kuller, H Ueshima, A Sekikawa
We examined the association between serum lipoprotein subclasses and the three measures of arterial stiffness, that is, (i) carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV), which is a gold standard measure of central arterial stiffness, (ii) brachial-ankle PWV (baPWV), which is emerging as a combined measure of central and peripheral arterial stiffness and (iii) femoral-ankle PWV (faPWV), which is a measure of peripheral arterial stiffness. Among a population-based sample of 701 apparently healthy Caucasian, Japanese American and Korean men aged 40-49 years, concentrations of lipoprotein particles were assessed by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and the PWV was assessed with an automated waveform analyzer (VP2000, Omron, Japan)...
February 2014: Journal of Human Hypertension