IMR Press / RCM / Volume 24 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.31083/j.rcm2402041
Open Access Original Research
Association of Carotid-Femoral Pulse Wave Velocity and Ejection Duration with Target Organ Damage
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1 Department of Geriatrics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 200025 Shanghai, China
2 Department of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 200025 Shanghai, China
3 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, 2109 Sydney, Australia
4 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 200025 Shanghai, China
*Correspondence: aerztinq@163.com (Yi Qian); zuo-junli@163.com (Junli Zuo)
These authors contributed equally.
Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2023, 24(2), 41; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2402041
Submitted: 24 September 2022 | Revised: 19 November 2022 | Accepted: 6 December 2022 | Published: 2 February 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases—Volume 2)
Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) and ejection duration (ED) have different impacts on target organ damage (TOD). The aim of this study was to determine the relationship of cfPWV and ED with TOD. Methods: A total of 1254 patients (64.27% males) from Ruijin Hospital were enrolled in this study from December 2018 to August 2022. Medical records, blood samples and urine samples were collected. The cfPWV was measured and ED was generated using SphygmoCor software (version 8.0, AtCor Medical, Sydney, Australia). TOD including left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), microalbuminuria, chronic kidney disease (CKD), and abnormality of carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) were evaluated. Results: Multiple stepwise linear regression models of cfPWV and ED (individually or together) showed that cfPWV was positively correlated with left ventricular mass index (LVMI) (β= 0.131, p = 0.002) and Log (albumin-creatinine ratio, ACR) (β= 0.123, p = 0.004), while ED was negatively correlated with LVMI (β= –0.244, p < 0.001) and positively correlated with the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) (β= 0.115, p = 0.003). When cfPWV and ED were added separately or together in multiple stepwise logistic regression models, cfPWV was associated with CKD [odds ratio (OR) = 1.240, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.055–1.458, p = 0.009], while ED was associated with LVH (OR = 0.983, 95% CI 0.975–0.992, p < 0.001). In the control group with normal cfPWV and normal ED, LVH was significantly lower in patients with high ED (OR = 0.574, 95% CI 0.374–0.882, p = 0.011), but significantly elevated in those with high cfPWV and low ED (OR = 6.799, 95% CI 1.305–35.427, p = 0.023). Conclusions: cfPWV was more strongly associated with renal damage, while ED was more strongly associated with cardiac dysfunction. cfPWV and ED affect each other, and together have an effect on LVH.

Keywords
carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity
ejection duration
target organ damage
renal damage
left ventricular hypertrophy
Funding
81500190/National Natural Science Foundation of China
SHDC12019X20/Clinical Science and Shanghai Municipal Hospital New Frontier Technology Joint Project
2020YJZX0124/Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning
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