Title Inflammaging and vascular function in metabolic syndrome: the role of hyperuricemia /
Authors Laučytė-Cibulskienė, Agnė ; Smaliukaitė, Monika ; Dadonienė, Jolanta ; Čypienė, Alma ; Mikolaitytė, Jurgita ; Ryliškytė, Ligita ; Laucevičius, Aleksandras ; Badarienė, Jolita
DOI 10.3390/medicina58030373
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Is Part of Medicina.. Kaunas; Basel : LSMU; MDPI. 2022, vol. 58, no. 3, p. 547-552.. ISSN 1010-660X. eISSN 1648-9144
Keywords [eng] arterial stiffness ; carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity ; hyperuricemia ; inflammaging ; metabolic syndrome ; uric acid
Abstract [eng] Background and Objectives: Early vascular aging determines a more rapid course of age-related arterial changes. It may be induced by a proinflammatory state, caused by hyperuricemia and metabolic syndrome and their interrelationship. However, the impact of serum uric acid (SUA) on early arterial stiffening and vascular function remains uncertain. Materials and Methods: A total of 696 participants (439 women aged 50–65 and 257 men aged 40–55) from the Lithuanian High Cardiovascular Risk (LitHiR) primary prevention program were enrolled in the study. They underwent anthropometric measurements and laboratory testing along with arterial parameters’ evaluation. Quality carotid stiffness (QCS), carotid-radial pulse wave velocity (crPWV), carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV), flow-mediated dilatation (FMD), and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) were registered. Results: We found that hyperuricemia was significantly associated with inflammation, registered by high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in both sexes. A very weak but significant association was observed between cfPWV and SUA in men and in women, while, after adjusting for risk factors, it remained significant only in women. A positive, weak, but significant association was also observed for QCS, both right and left in women. No relationship was observed between crPWV, FMD, CIMT, and SUA.
Published Kaunas; Basel : LSMU; MDPI
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2022
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