scholarly journals FRI0420 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RED BLOOD CELLS DISTRIBUTION WIDTH AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN OSTEOARTHRITIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 808.2-808
Author(s):  
N. Hammam ◽  
G. Salem ◽  
D. Fouad ◽  
S. Rashad

Background:Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease that results in patient’s morbidity and disabilities. There is strong evidence that OA is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Red cell distribution width (RDW) blood test is a measure of the variation in red blood cell volume and size. Elevated RDW has recently been found to correlate with CVD risk in patients with and without heart disease and autoimmune diseases. RDW may be a marker for factors driving CVS risk.Objectives:: To investigate whether RDW can serve as a potential parameter for indicating cardiovascular risk in OA patients.Methods:A subsample of 819 OA patients was extracted from 2003-2006 National Health & Nutrition Examination Survey in a cross-sectional study. 63.7% of them were females. Their mean age was 66.4 ± 14.1 yrs. Demographic, medical data, inflammatory markers & lipid panel were obtained. Only patients with Haemoglobin>12 mg/dl were included. Functional limitations were assessed using a physical function questionnaire.Results:Elevated levels of RDW were associated with CVD risk factors in OA patients. 532 (65.8%) OA patients had functional limitations, while 78 (9.5%) and 63 (7.6%) known to have heart attacks or stroke ever. Mean RDW was 12.9±1.1fL. There was a positive significant correlation between RDW & CVD risk factors including body mass index (r=0.17, p<0.001), C-reactive protein (r=0.29, p<0.001), serum uric acid (r=0.12, p<0.001), and functional limitation (0.16, p<0.001). No significant association between RDW & lipid panel was found. In multiple regression analysis controlling for age, sex as covariates, body mass index (β =0.02, 95%CI: 0.01, 0.03, p=0.002), C-reactive protein (β =0.35, 95%CI: 0.26, 0.45, p<0.001), and functional limitation (β =0.18, 95%CI: 0.13, 0.35, p=0.03).Conclusion:In addition to known CVD risk in OA patients, elevated RDW levels should prompt physicians to aggressively screen and treat their patients for modifiable CVS risk factors, in addition to OA.Disclosure of Interests:None declared

Circulation ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 127 (suppl_12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kaplan ◽  
Larissa M Avilés-Santa ◽  
Christina M Parrinello ◽  
Sheila Castañeda ◽  
Arlene L Hankinson ◽  
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Introduction: Prevalence of severe obesity is increasing, especially among the young Hispanic population. Methods: In the HCHS/SOL cohort of 18-74 year old US Hispanics, we examined gradients across BMI and age in CVD risk factors. Results: Approximately one in five males (total N = 6,547) and one in ten females (total N=9,797) met criteria for class II obesity (BMI 35 - 40 kg/m 2 ) or class III obesity (BMI ≥ 40 kg/m 2 ). The prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, and elevated C-reactive protein rose with each successive class of overweight/obesity. In contrast, the prevalence of elevated levels of total cholesterol, LDL-c and triglycerides increased across normal weight, overweight (BMI 25 - 30 kg/m 2 ), and class I obese (BMI 30 - 35 kg/m 2 ) groups, but did not increase in frequency across class I, class II, and class III obesity groups. The Figure depicts isolines that identify age- specific subgroups of the normal-weight and class II - III obese groups that had the same estimated prevalence of CVD risk factors, with 95 percent confidence intervals. Among young adults with class II or III obesity, the prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, and the combination of three or more CVD risk factors was similar to that among normal-weight individuals (BMI 18.5 - 25 kg/m 2 ) who were 15 to 30 years older. Among young obese individuals, the prevalence of low HDL-c levels and high C-reactive protein levels exceeded that among the oldest adults in the cohort. CVD risk factors had stronger, more consistent gradients across the BMI categories among men than among women. Conclusion: Class II and III obesity, defined as BMI ≥ 35 kg/m 2 , are common in the Hispanic/Latino population. Young adults with these severe forms of obesity have dramatically increased frequency of cardiometabolic risk factors. The age-related accumulation of multiple CVD risk factors, such as is typically seen in normal-weight individuals, is accelerated by 1-2 decades in severly overweight women and by 2-3 decades in severely overweight men.


Circulation ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 133 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Baqiyyah Conway ◽  
Peter Giacobbi ◽  
Clemens Drenowatz ◽  
Stephen Blair ◽  
Gregory Hand

Background: It is generally accepted that body weight is maintained when there is energy balance between intake and expenditure. Energy balance can be achieved at different rates of expenditure through exercise and caloric intake which has been referred to as energy flux: high flux reflects high expenditure and high intake while low flux describes low energy expenditure and intake. Overweight, obesity, and diabetes are major risk factors for cardiovascular disease and CVD risk factors tend to increase with hyperglycemia and BMI. Exercise is a viable way to achieve weight maintenance, however, there is limited data about the role of energy flux on CVD risk factors when individuals maintain their body weight. We investigated the effect of energy flux and change in energy flux on CVD risk factors in when body weight is maintained. Methods: One hundred and thirteen overweight or obese class I adults ages 21 to 45 were randomized to a control group, moderate exercise (17.5 kcal/kg/week) or high exercise group (35 kcal/kg/week). The exercise groups performed supervised exercise at and intensity of 70-75% of their heart rate maximum. Impaired fasting glucose was defined as a fasting glucose of 100-125 mg/dL. General linear models were used to test the relationship of exercise intensity and impaired fasting glucose on change in energy flux from baseline to six months, as well as the relationship of 6-month change in energy flux with change in CVD risk factors, namely, HDLc, LDLc, vLDLc, total cholesterol, triglycerides, Apolipoprotein B (ApoB), and C-reactive protein. Results: Seventy-two percent of the population was overweight and 22% were obese. Mean change in energy flux from baseline to month six was 128.8 kcal/day. In multivariable analyses including age, sex, BMI, impaired fasting glucose, and energy expenditure group assignment, neither exercise group assignment nor baseline obesity status had any effect on change in energy flux, lipids, or inflammatory markers. Impaired fasting glucose was associated with a significantly greater increase in energy flux from baseline to six months (p=0.03). There was a stepwise change in C-reactive protein from baseline to six months, with a decrease (-2.46 mg/dL) in controls, a moderate increase (+0.32 mg/dL) in the moderate intensity exercise group and a larger increase (+0.82 mg/dL) in the very intensive exercise group, p= 0.03 for moderate intensity and p=0.02 for very intensive exercise groups compared to controls. Finally, increases in energy flux from baseline to six months were associated with increased ApoB (p=0.04), though there were no significant changes in energy flux by group assignment. Conclusion: Intensification of exercise and increases in energy flux while maintaining stable weight is associated with increases in certain cardiovascular risk factors, namely C-reactive protein and ApoB.


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1392-1403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eden M Barrett ◽  
Birdem Amoutzopoulos ◽  
Marijka J Batterham ◽  
Sumantra Ray ◽  
Eleanor J Beck

AbstractObjective:To investigate how intakes of whole grains and cereal fibre were associated to risk factors for CVD in UK adults.Design:Cross-sectional analyses examined associations between whole grain and cereal fibre intakes and adiposity measurements, serum lipid concentrations, C-reactive protein, systolic blood pressure, fasting glucose, HbA1c, homocysteine and a combined CVD relative risk score.Setting:The National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) Rolling Programme 2008–2014.Participants:A nationally representative sample of 2689 adults.Results:Participants in the highest quartile (Q4) of whole grain intake had lower waist–hip ratio (Q1 0·872; Q4 0·857; P = 0·04), HbA1c (Q1 5·66 %; Q4 5·47 %; P = 0·01) and homocysteine (Q1 9·95 µmol/l; Q4 8·76 µmol/l; P = 0·01) compared with participants in the lowest quartile (Q1), after adjusting for dietary and lifestyle factors, including cereal fibre intake. Whole grain intake was inversely associated with C-reactive protein using multivariate analysis (P = 0·02), but this was not significant after final adjustment for cereal fibre. Cereal fibre intake was also inversely associated with waist–hip ratio (P = 0·03) and homocysteine (P = 0·002) in multivariate analysis.Conclusions:Similar inverse associations between whole grain and cereal fibre intakes to CVD risk factors suggest the relevance of cereal fibre in the protective effects of whole grains. However, whole grain associations often remained significant after adjusting for cereal fibre intake, suggesting additional constituents may be relevant. Intervention studies are needed to compare cereal fibre intake from non-whole grain sources to whole grain intake.


Author(s):  
Beatriz Gonzalez Navarro ◽  
Enric Jané Salas ◽  
Jose Lopez Lopez ◽  
Xavier Pintó Sala

Background Dental pathology [dental caries (DC) and apical periodontitis (AP)] and/or periodontal pathology (PD) could influence the onset of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The relationship between conventional CVD risk factors and dento-periodontal pathology has been well demonstrated; however, there is less evidence of the relationship between these pathologies and emerging or unconventional CVD risk factors, including C-reactive protein (CRP), Homocysteine ​​(Hcy) and Lipoprotein a (Lp (a). Methods This case-control study included 99 patients with CVD and 50 healthy controls. All participants underwent a detailed medical history, an intraoral examination, an orthopantomography and a blood test. All the analyses were performed on the data set, using all available information with intention to treat criteria. Results A greater number of patients in the study group presented PD (p <0.001) and AP (p <0.001) compared to the control group. However, we did not find significant differences in the prevalence of caries between both groups (p <0.287). Moreover, none of oral variables was significantly related to concentrations of CRP, Hcy or Lp(a). Conclusions Patients with CVD present more PD and a greater number of AP, suggesting an association between dento-periodontal pathology and cardiovascular pathology. The concentrations of CRP, homocysteine and Lp(a) are not related to the degree of dento-periodontal pathology, so we believe that more studies are necessary to assess this possible association.


2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (05) ◽  
pp. 511-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Korlesky ◽  
Pamela Kling ◽  
Daphne Pham ◽  
Albina Ovasapyan ◽  
Cheryl Leyns ◽  
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Objective Obesity during pregnancy impedes fetal iron endowment. In adults, both iron depletion and hypoxia stimulate erythropoietin (Epo) production, while hepcidin, the primary iron regulator, is inhibited by Epo and stimulated by obesity. To understand this relationship in fetuses, we investigated obesity, inflammation, and fetal iron status on fetal Epo and hepcidin levels. Study Design Epo, hepcidin, C-reactive protein (CRP), and ferritin levels were measured in 201 newborns of 35 to 40 weeks' gestation with historical risk factors for a low fetal iron endowment, including half with maternal obesity. Results Epo was unrelated to fetal size, but Epo was directly related to maternal body mass index (BMI; kg/m2) (p < 0.03) and CRP (p < 0.0005) at delivery. Epo levels were twice as likely to be elevated (≥50 IU/L) while comparing the lowest quartile of ferritin with the upper three quartiles (p < 0.01). Hepcidin was directly related to ferritin (p < 0.001) and indirectly related to maternal BMI (p < 0.015), but BMI became nonsignificant when undergoing multivariate analysis. Hepcidin was unrelated to Epo. Conclusion Although some of the fetal responses involving Epo were similar to adults, we did not find a hepcidin–Epo relationship like that of adults, where fetal liver is the site of both hepcidin and Epo production.


2008 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1027-1037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyson Kelley-Hedgepeth ◽  
Donald M Lloyd-Jones ◽  
Alicia Colvin ◽  
Karen A Matthews ◽  
Janet Johnston ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Limited data exist regarding the ethnic differences in C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations, an inflammatory marker associated with risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We hypothesized that known CVD risk factors, including anthropometric characteristics, would explain much of the observed ethnic variation in CRP. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional analysis of 3154 women, without known CVD and not receiving hormone therapy, enrolled in the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN), a multiethnic prospective study of pre- and perimenopausal women. Results: The study population was 47.4% white, 27.7% African-American, 8.5% Hispanic, 7.7% Chinese, and 8.6% Japanese; mean age was 46.2 years. African-American women had the highest median CRP concentrations (3.2 mg/L), followed by Hispanic (2.3 mg/L), white (1.5 mg/L), Chinese (0.7 mg/L), and Japanese (0.5 mg/L) women (all pairwise P &lt; 0.001 compared with white women). Body mass index (BMI) markedly attenuated the association between ethnicity and CRP. After adjusting for age, socioeconomic status, BMI, and other risk factors, African-American ethnicity was associated with CRP concentrations &gt;3 mg/L (odds ratio 1.37, 95% CI 1.07–1.75), whereas Chinese and Japanese ethnicities were inversely related (0.58, 0.35–0.95, and 0.43, 0.26–0.72, respectively). Conclusions: Modifiable risk factors, particularly BMI, account for much but not all of the ethnic differences in CRP concentrations. Further study is needed of these ethnic differences and their implications for the use of CRP in CVD risk prediction.


2015 ◽  
Vol 113 (8) ◽  
pp. 1244-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis C. Frazier-Wood ◽  
Jihye Kim ◽  
Jennifer S. Davis ◽  
Su Yon Jung ◽  
Shine Chang

The role that BMI plays in the association between dietary quality and CVD risk is not known. We aimed to better understand this relationship using statistical methods which correct for sex-specific underreporting of dietary intake. Overall, dietary quality was assessed using the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) on data from 9797 non-pregnant adults (aged >20 years) who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2005 to 2010. CVD risk factors included blood pressure, fasting glucose and insulin, homeostatic models of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), HDL- and LDL-cholesterol (HDL-C and LDL-C), TAG and C-reactive protein (CRP). We controlled for demographic and lifestyle covariates, and we used the population ratio approach (which adjusts for the underreporting of intake) to compare mean HEI scores between the top and bottom quartiles of covariate-adjusted CVD risk factors. In women, the total HEI score was not associated with any CVD risk factors (all Q>0·11). In men, the total HEI score was associated with covariate-adjusted residuals for fasting insulin (Q< 0·001), HOMA-IR (Q< 0·001), HDL-C (Q= 0·01), TAG (Q= 0·03) and CRP (Q< 0·001). When we additionally adjusted for BMI, the association with total HEI score was not significant (all P>0·10). In the present analyses, dietary quality was associated with five CVD risk factors in a sex-specific manner. Moreover, the association of BMI with CVD risk attenuated the relationship between CVD risk and diet, which suggests that BMI is an important factor in heart disease prevention.


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