Cardiovascular health and retinal microvascular geometry in Australian 11-12 year-olds.
Children
Microcirculation
Population-based study
Pre-clinical vascular phenotypes
Retinal micrvasculature
Retinal vascular parameters
Risk factors
Journal
Microvascular research
ISSN: 1095-9319
Titre abrégé: Microvasc Res
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0165035
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2020
05 2020
Historique:
received:
19
11
2019
revised:
09
12
2019
accepted:
09
12
2019
pubmed:
15
12
2019
medline:
21
7
2020
entrez:
15
12
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Traditional retinal microvascular parameters (smaller arteriolar and greater venular caliber) are associated with cardiovascular risk factors, pre-clinical vascular phenotypes and clinical cardiovascular events in adults. Although novel retinal microvascular geometric parameters showed analogous associations in adults, less is known whether these parameters are associated with cardiovascular health from childhood. In a population-based cross-sectional study in children (n = 1126, mean age 11.4 years, 50.3% girls), we examined associations of cardiovascular risk factors and pre-clinical arterial phenotypes with retinal geometric parameters. Cardiovascular parameters included body mass index (BMI), an inflammatory marker (GlycA), low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure, large artery functional (pulse wave velocity, PWV and carotid arterial elasticity) and structural (carotid intima-media thickness) phenotypes. Retinal geometric parameters (fractal dimension (D
Identifiants
pubmed: 31836514
pii: S0026-2862(19)30302-4
doi: 10.1016/j.mvr.2019.103966
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
103966Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.