Aortic root dimension as an independent predictor for all-cause death in adults <65 years of age (from the chin-shan community cardiovascular cohort study)

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 487-495

  Lai, Chao Lun ^a   Chien, Kuo Liong ^b,c   Hsu, Hsiu Ching ^c   Su, Ta Chen ^c   Chen, Ming Fong ^c   Lee, Yuan Teh ^d  

^a FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aorta; Echocardiography; Mortality; Prognosis; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ROOT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INDEX; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; AORTA, THORACIC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 77952941521     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.01072.x     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Casale PN, Devereux RB, Milner M, et al : Value of echocardiographic measurement of left ventricular mass in predicting cardiovascular morbid events in hypertensive men. Ann Intern Med 1986 105 : 173 178.
2. Levy D, Garrison RJ, Savage DD, et al : Prognostic implications of echocardiographically determined left ventricular mass in the Framingham Heart Study. New Engl J Med 1990 322 : 1561 1566.
3. Aurigemma GP, Gottdiener JS, Shemanski L, et al : Predictive value of systolic and diastolic function for incident congestive heart failure in the elderly: The Cardiovascular Health Study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37 : 1042 1048.
4. Gardin JM, McClelland R, Kitzman D, et al : M-mode echocardiographic predictors of six- to seven-year incidence of coronary heart disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, and mortality in an elderly cohort (The Cardiovascular Health Study). Am J Cardiol 2001 87 : 1051 1057.
5. Bella JN, Palmieri V, Roman MJ, et al : Mitral ratio of peak early to late diastolic filling velocity as a predictor of mortality in middle-aged and elderly adults: The Strong Heart Study. Circulation 2002 105 : 1928 1933.
6. Devereux RB, Roman MJ, Palmieri V, et al : Prognostic implications of ejection fraction from linear echocardiographic dimensions: The Strong Heart Study. Am Heart J 2003 146 : 527 534.
7. Wang TJ, Evans JC, Benjamin EJ, et al : Natural history of asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction in the community. Circulation 2003 108 : 977 982.
8. Huang CH, Chien KL, Chen WJ, et al : Impact of heart failure and left ventricular function on long-term survival-report of a community-based cohort study in Taiwan. Eur J Heart Fail 2007 9 : 587 593.
9. Palmieri V, de Simone G, Roman MJ, et al : Ambulatory blood pressure and metabolic abnormalities in hypertensive subjects with inappropriately high left ventricular mass. Hypertension 1999 34 : 1032 1040.
10. Palmieri V, Bella JN, Arnett DK, et al : Aortic root dilatation at sinuses of valsalva and aortic regurgitation in hypertensive and normotensive subjects: The Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network Study. Hypertension 2001 37 : 1229 1235.
11. Gardin JM, Arnold AM, Polak J, et al : Usefulness of aortic root dimension in persons > or = 65 years of age in predicting heart failure, stroke, cardiovascular mortality, all-cause mortality and acute myocardial infarction (from the Cardiovascular Health Study). Am J Cardiol 2006 97 : 270 275.
12. Chien KL, Lee YT, Sung FC, et al : Hyperinsulinemia and related atherosclerotic risk factors in the population at cardiovascular risk: A community-based study. Clin Chem 1999 45 : 838 846.
13. Chien KL, Lee YT, Sung FC, et al : Lipoprotein (a) level in the population in Taiwan: Relationship to sociodemographic and atherosclerotic risk factors. Atherosclerosis 1999 143 : 267 273.
14. Lee YT, Lin RS, Sung FC, et al : Chin-Shan Community Cardiovascular Cohort in Taiwan-baseline data and five-year follow-up morbidity and mortality. J Clin Epidemiol 2000 53 : 838 846.
15. Chien KL, Hsu HC, Sung FC, et al : Metabolic syndrome as a risk factor for coronary heart disease and stroke: An 11-year prospective cohort in Taiwan community. Atherosclerosis 2007 194 : 214 221.
16. Sahn DJ, DeMaria A, Kisslo J, et al : Recommendations regarding quantitation in M-mode echocardiography: Results of a survey of echocardiographic measurements. Circulation 1978 58 : 1072 1083.
17. Chien KL, Sung FC, Hsu HC, et al : Left ventricular mass and correlated atherosclerotic risk factors in young adolescents: Report from Chin-Shan community cardiovascular study in Taiwan. Atherosclerosis 2001 155 : 431 437.
18. Dubois D, Dubois EF : A formula to estimate the approximate surface area if height and weight be known. Arch Intern Med 1916 17 : 863 871.
19. Vasan RS, Larson MG, Levy D : Determinants of echocardiographic aortic root size: The Framingham Heart Study. Circulation 1995 91 : 734 740.
20. Daimon M, Watanabe H, Abe Y, et al : Normal values of echocardiographic parameters in relation to age in a healthy Japanese population: the JAMP study. Circ J 2008 72 : 1859 1866.
21. Farasat SM, Morrell CH, Scuteri A, et al : Pulse pressure is inversely related to aortic root diameter. Implications for the pathogenesis of systolic hypertension. Hypertension 2008 51 : 196 202.
22. Farasat SM, Morrell CH, Scuteri A, et al : Do hypertensive individuals have enlarged aortic root diameters? Insights from studying the various subtypes of hypertension. Am J Hypertens 2008 21 : 558 563.
23. Ingelsson E, Pencina MJ, Levy D, et al : Aortic root diameter and longitudinal blood pressure tracking. Hypertension 2008 52 : 473 477.
24. Allaire E, Schneider F, Saucy F, et al : New insight in aetiopathogenesis of aortic diseases. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2009 37 : 531 537.
25. de Simone G, Kizer JR, Chinali M, et al : Normalization for body size and population-attributable risk of left ventricular hypertrophy. The Strong Heart Study. Am J Hypertens 2005 18 : 191 196. (Pubitemid 40332548)
26. Wong RCC, Yip JWL, Gupta A, et al : Echocardiographic left ventricular mass in a multiethnic Southeast Asian population: proposed new gender and age-specific norms. Echocardiography 2008 25 : 805 811.