Relation of Aortic Wall Thickness and Distensibility to Cardiovascular Risk Factors (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis [MESA])
Ashkan A. Malayeri,Shunsuke Natori,Hossein Bahrami,Alain G. Bertoni,Richard Kronmal,João A.C. Lima,David A. Bluemke;Ashkan A. Malayeri;Shunsuke Natori;Hossein Bahrami;Alain G. Bertoni;Richard Kronmal;João A.C. Lima;David A. Bluemke;
the american journal of cardiology2008Vol. 102pp. 491-496
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bluemke2008therelation
Abstract
To determine the relation between aortic wall thickness (WT) and aortic distensibility (AD) with traditional cardiovascular risk factors in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) cohort, 1,053 participants in MESA who underwent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging were consecutively selected for the measurement of aortic WT and AD. Double inversion-recovery fast spin-echo images of the thoracic aorta were obtained to measure average and maximum WT. AD was measured at the same level using a gradient-echo cine sequence. Average and maximum WT were positively correlated with increasing age, and AD was inversely related to age (p