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JOURNAL ARTICLE
RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
Associations between vascular calcification, arterial stiffness and bone mineral density in chronic hemodialysis patients.
Geriatrics & Gerontology International 2009 September
AIM: The aim of our study was to examine the associations between vascular calcification, arterial stiffness and bone mineral density (BMD) in chronic hemodialysis (HD) patients.
METHODS: The study subjects were 83 (70 men and 13 women) HD patients. All patients had computed tomography (CT) to determine aortic calcification index (ACI), pulse wave velocity (PWV) using a volume-plethysmographic apparatus, and BMD estimated by digital image processing (DIP).
RESULTS: Patients, 84.3% male, 38.6% diabetic, had a mean age of 59.3 +/- 11.2 years. In univariate linear regression analysis, ACI correlated positively with age (r = 0.586, P < 0.0001), dialysis vintage (r = 0.47, P = 0.002), pulse pressure (r = 0.311, P = 0.004), C-reactive protein (CRP) (r = 0.226, P = 0.0397) and PWV (r = 0.422, P < 0.0001). There was no significant association between ACI and serum markers of mineral metabolism. There was also a positive association between PWV and systolic blood pressure (P = 0.0004) or pulse pressure (P < 0.0001), and a trend towards greater PWV with increasing age (r = 0.494). In multivariate regression analysis only increasing age, pulse pressure, serum levels of albumin and CRP were significantly associated with ACI and PWV. Mean BMD on DIP was 2.7 +/- 0.4 mmAL. ACI was inversely correlated with BMD (r = -0.234, P = 0.0331).
CONCLUSIONS: Vascular calcification is closely associated with arterial stiffness in HD patients. BMD is inversely correlated with ACI, suggesting that measurement of hand BMD by DIP is a useful tool for assessment of renal bone disease in these patients.
METHODS: The study subjects were 83 (70 men and 13 women) HD patients. All patients had computed tomography (CT) to determine aortic calcification index (ACI), pulse wave velocity (PWV) using a volume-plethysmographic apparatus, and BMD estimated by digital image processing (DIP).
RESULTS: Patients, 84.3% male, 38.6% diabetic, had a mean age of 59.3 +/- 11.2 years. In univariate linear regression analysis, ACI correlated positively with age (r = 0.586, P < 0.0001), dialysis vintage (r = 0.47, P = 0.002), pulse pressure (r = 0.311, P = 0.004), C-reactive protein (CRP) (r = 0.226, P = 0.0397) and PWV (r = 0.422, P < 0.0001). There was no significant association between ACI and serum markers of mineral metabolism. There was also a positive association between PWV and systolic blood pressure (P = 0.0004) or pulse pressure (P < 0.0001), and a trend towards greater PWV with increasing age (r = 0.494). In multivariate regression analysis only increasing age, pulse pressure, serum levels of albumin and CRP were significantly associated with ACI and PWV. Mean BMD on DIP was 2.7 +/- 0.4 mmAL. ACI was inversely correlated with BMD (r = -0.234, P = 0.0331).
CONCLUSIONS: Vascular calcification is closely associated with arterial stiffness in HD patients. BMD is inversely correlated with ACI, suggesting that measurement of hand BMD by DIP is a useful tool for assessment of renal bone disease in these patients.
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