Background: Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is the least recognized form of atherosclerosis and may even result in amputation if the diagnosis is delayed. Manual pulse palpation is the traditional way to diagnose PAD....Background: Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is the least recognized form of atherosclerosis and may even result in amputation if the diagnosis is delayed. Manual pulse palpation is the traditional way to diagnose PAD. Doppler ultrasonographic measurement of ankle-brachial index (ABI) is the gold standard diagnosing method but requires training and is not necessarily available as an outpatient procedure. Using automated oscillometric blood pressure devices has been suggested as an easier method for measuring the ABI. Methods: A single observer palpated the arterial dorsalis pedis, examined hand joints and measured the ABI of one hundred diabetic patients using both Doppler and oscillometric methods. The purpose of this study was to compare the oscillometric method and the manual diagnosing methods to the gold standard method of using a hand held Doppler device for measuring the ABI and detecting PAD. Results: ABI was abnormal in 24 patients (24%) (22 males, 2 females) when measured with the Doppler method. Of these 24 patients, the oscillometric method would have missed 12 giving 12 false negatives. We found that the sensitivity of the oscillometric method was 50.0% and specificity 90.8%. Clinical examination with palpation of ADP combined with limited joint mobility (LJM) scoring would have missed only four cases. Conclusions: Although the oscillometric method is easy and accessible, it is not sensitive enough to be used as the only method in measuring ABI. The simple and inexpensive ADP pulse palpation combined with testing for LMJ was able to find 20 of the 24 (83%) patients with an abnormal ABI measured by Doppler stethoscope.展开更多
Background: The present study was conducted to examine the association between various coronary risk factors and clinical parameters, with special emphasis on ankle-brachial index, in predicting the severity and compl...Background: The present study was conducted to examine the association between various coronary risk factors and clinical parameters, with special emphasis on ankle-brachial index, in predicting the severity and complexity of coronary artery disease. Methods: Patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease at our hospital between September-2012 and December-2014 were examined in this study. Selected patients were screened for cardiovascular risk factors including diabetes, hypertension, smoking, and alcohol habits as well as for clinical parameters including body-mass index, waist-hip ratio, ankle-brachial index, and ejection fraction. All patients underwent coronary angiography and were evaluated for severity of coronary artery disease (based on number of vessels involved) and complexity of coronary angiographic lesions (measured by computer-assisted Syntax score calculator). The collected data were analyzed to determine the role of cardiovascular risk factors and clinical parameters as predictors of complexity and severity of coronary artery disease. Results: A total of 211 patients (mean age: 54.64 ± 9.9 years;81% males) with coronary artery disease were analyzed. Findings revealed that diabetes mellitus (p < 0.001), hypertension (p < 0.001), smoking habits (p = 0.036), and low ankle-brachial index (p < 0.001) were independent predictors of complex coronary artery disease as measured by Syntax score. Significant associations were also evident between severity of coronary artery disease and diabetes mellitus (p < 0.001), hypertension (p < 0.001), and ankle-brachial index (p < 0.001). Conversely, other cardiovascular risk factors including body-mass index, alcohol habits, wait-hip ratio, and ejection fraction did not exhibit significant associations with severity and complexity of coronary artery. Conclusions: The early diagnosis of coronary artery can be predicated by evaluating diabetes, hypertension, and smoking habits in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome. In addition, ankle-brachial index can be used as an effective non-invasive bed-side tool, as an alternative to Syntax score, in predicting the severity and complexity of coronary artery disease.展开更多
The incidence of ischemic stroke in patients with diabetes is increasing. While brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (BaPWV) and ankle-bra- chial index (ABI) are known to be associated with ischemic cardiovascular a...The incidence of ischemic stroke in patients with diabetes is increasing. While brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (BaPWV) and ankle-bra- chial index (ABI) are known to be associated with ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, whether these measures predict the risk of ischemic cerebrovascular disease in diabetic patients remains unclear. 117 patients with type 2 diabetes were enrolled in this study. According to the results of head magnetic resonance imaging, the patients were divided into a diabetes-only group (n = 55) and a diabetes and ischemic stroke group (n = 62). We then performed ABI and BaPWV examinations for all patients. Compared with the diabe- tes-only group, we found decreased ABI and increased BaPWV in the diabetes and ischemic stroke group. Multivariate logistic regression analyses revealed that BaPWV and ABI were risk factors for ischemic stroke in patients with type 2 diabetes. Our findings indicate that decreased ABI and increased BaPWV are objective indicators of increased risk of ischemic stroke in patients with type 2 diabetes.展开更多
Objective To assess the association between 1-year risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and ankle-brachial index (ABI) in Chinese patients who were at high CVD risk. Methods Totally 3733 pa...Objective To assess the association between 1-year risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and ankle-brachial index (ABI) in Chinese patients who were at high CVD risk. Methods Totally 3733 patients with high CV risk had bilateral ABI measurements at baseline and were followed up for 1-1.5 years. Patients were divided to four groups: 1) coronary heart disease (CHD); 2) ischemic stroke (IS); 3) diabetes mellitus (DM); 4) very high risk group(VHR), low ABI was defined as 〈0.9. Results A total of 3179 patients were analyzed. The prevalence of low ABI was 28.1%. At 1 year, all-cause mortality was 8.7%, and 27.6% was attributable to CVD; mortality due to CV events was 4.8% and 1.5%. After adjusting other risk factors the hazard ratio of low ABI was 1.623 for all-cause mortality and 2.304 for CVD mortality. Similar in patient with and without low ABI, respectively were found in four groups.Conclusion ABI is a strong and independent predictor ofrnortality. Patients with a low ABI have a substantially increased risk of all-cause mortality and CVD mortality (J Geriatr Cardio12010; 7:17-20).展开更多
<strong>Objective</strong>: <span><span><span style="font-family:verdana;">This study evaluates the association of self-reported race with</span><span style="font-...<strong>Objective</strong>: <span><span><span style="font-family:verdana;">This study evaluates the association of self-reported race with</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> change in ankle-brachial index (ABI) over time and modification of this association by paraoxonase gene (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">PON</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">1,</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> PON</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> and PON</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">3) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). </span></span><b><span style="font-family:verdana;">Methods: </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">This longitudinal study included 11,992 (N</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">=</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">2952 Black,</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">N</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">=</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">9040 White) participants from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Com</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">munities (ARIC) cohort with PON genotyping. Mixed-effects models ex</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">amined whether race was associated with change in ABI over time after adjustment for known peripheral artery disease (PAD) risk factors.</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><b><span style="font-family:verdana;">Results:</span></b><i><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span></i><span style="font-family:verdana;">Change in ABI over time differed between Whites and Blacks (race-time interaction,</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">p</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">0.0001). Stratified analyses showed that ABI values were better in both Blacks and Whites who completed high school or more education compared to those who completed less education. None of the </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">PON</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> SNPs met the significance level (p</span></span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">0.001) after Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons. </span><b><span style="font-family:verdana;">Conclusions:</span></b><i><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span></i><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ABI differences by race were small and although statistically signif</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">icant, may not be clinically significant. Change in ABI over time varies by</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> race and may be modified by education. Results suggest that higher education may influence the lifestyle and behavioral choices contributing to better ABI in both Blacks and Whites</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. Further studies are needed to confirm this observation.</span></span></span></span></span>展开更多
Introduction: The peripheral artery disease (PAD) is one of the chronic and frightening vascular complications of the diabetes whose tracking can be done by the Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) measurement. We conducted in ...Introduction: The peripheral artery disease (PAD) is one of the chronic and frightening vascular complications of the diabetes whose tracking can be done by the Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) measurement. We conducted in this context a study which consisted in measuring the ABI among hospitalized diabetic patients at Teaching Hospital of Pikine in Dakar, over 18 months’ duration. The aim was to determine the prevalence and evaluate factors correlated to the presence of the PAD. Patients and Method: This cross-sectional descriptive study interested the whole of diabetic patients hospitalized in Internal Medicine/Endocrinology Department, from January 2013 to June 2014. We carried out a complete clinical examination associated with ABI measurement by a Doppler probe for each included patient after having collected the clinical and paraclinical data. Results: Our population of study comprised 209 diabetic patients with a female predominance (126, 60.3%). The sex-ratio man/woman was 0.6. The median age of the population of study was 54 ± 2 years. In our series, 157 (75.1%) patients discovered their diabetes with the waning of an affection while the 52 (24.9%) other patients discovered their diabetes at the time of a systematic assessment. The PAD appeared by an intermittent claudication among 38 patients (18.2%). The ABI was normal for 126 patients (60.3%). The ABI was low for 51 patients (24.4%), unilateral in 3.8% of cases and bilateral in 20.6% of cases. The ABI was high among 32 patients (15.3%), unilateral in 7.2% of cases and bilateral in 8.1% of cases. The ABI extremes values were 0.11 and 2. In the population of study, 46 patients (22%) had a well-compensated PAD. The PAD was low compensated for 3 patients (1.4%) and severe for 2 patients (1%). The ABI was more frequent and significantly among women than men, with 32 cases (25.4%) against 19 (22.9%) cases (p = 0.021). The proportion of low ABI was more important among patients whose diabetes had evolved for more than 5 years (42.3% of cases) with a peak of frequency in the duration of 6 - 10 years (47.7% of cases). Conclusion: The PAD global prevalence among hospitalized diabetic patients appeared high with 24.4% patients presenting low ABI. Its early diagnosis among subjects at risk as for our study population allowed identifying asymptomatic subjects having another cardiovascular damage. Thus, the screening of obstructive arteriopathy of lower limb PAD by the measurement of ABI should be applied to all diabetic patients for a better assessment of atherosclerotic complication.展开更多
Background: In new outpatients, blood pressure should be measured in both arms. A previous study reported that an inter-arm systolic blood pressure difference (ΔSBP) of ≥10 mm Hg is associated with an increased risk...Background: In new outpatients, blood pressure should be measured in both arms. A previous study reported that an inter-arm systolic blood pressure difference (ΔSBP) of ≥10 mm Hg is associated with an increased risk of mortality. Aim: The aim was to identify the associations with absolute values of ΔSBP (|ΔSBP|) ≥10 mm Hg. Subjects and Methods: This study included 2481 patients. Patients with a body mass index ≥25 kg/m<sup>2</sup> were defined as obese. The group of A was defined as following: ankle-brachial index (ABI) was <0.9 or ≥1.3. ΔSBP was expressed as right arm BP minus left arm BP. |ΔSBP| ≥10 mm Hg were analyzed using multivariate logistic analysis. Results: |ΔSBP| ≥10 mm Hg was found in 6.0% of patients and |ΔSBP| < 5 mm Hg in 80.4%. In multivariate analysis, the odds ratios (ORs) of the associations with |ΔSBP| ≥10 mm Hg were significantly associated with abnormal ABI and obesity regardless of sex and age. Moreover, the OR of the combined effects of abnormal ABI and obesity was higher than that of abnormal ABI and obesity alone. Conclusion: |ΔSBP| ≥10 mm Hg was associated with abnormal ABI and obesity. In a primary care setting, blood pressure should be actively measured in both arms. This study suggests that the associations with |ΔSBP| ≥10 mm Hg may be a useful part of screening for abnormal ABI.展开更多
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with accelerated atherosclerosis and increasing cardiovascular risk which is recognized as a major cause of morbidity and death. Whether subclinical atherosclerosis has...Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with accelerated atherosclerosis and increasing cardiovascular risk which is recognized as a major cause of morbidity and death. Whether subclinical atherosclerosis has been evaluated by several methods, there are very limited data about Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. The aim of the present study was to compare this index, between SLE patients and controls. We conducted a case-control study in the Department of Internal Medicine of our institution during the period from August 1, 2017 to December 31, 2018. We included 100 subjects, including 50 SLE patients and 50 control cases. This included 44 women and 6 men in patients with an identical distribution in controls. The mean age was 33.5 ± 11.3 years for cases and 33.3 ± 11.3 years (p-value: 0.93) for controls subjects. There was higher frequency of cardiovascular risk factors such as dyslipidemia (p-value at 0.009), low level of serum HDL-cholesterol (p-value??0.001), hypertriglyceridemia (p-value at 0.000) and hyperuricemia (p-value at 0.000) in patients with SLE. Overweight/obesity was higher in controls subjects (p-value at 0.028). There was no statistically significant difference in the frequency of diabetes-mellitus, smoking and high blood pressure. The abnormally ABI was recorded in 19 patients with SLE (38%) and 8 controls (16%) with a p-value: 0.01 and odds ratio: 3.22. Eight patients (16%) and four controls (8%) had low ABI without significant difference (p-value: 0.11 but odds-ratio at 2.98). Eleven patients with SLE (22%) and five controls (10%) had high ABI (p-value: 0.05 and odds-ratio: 3.24). In patients with SLE only disease activity (cSLEDAI) at the inclusion of the study was correlated?to abnormal ABI.?Conclusion:?This study showed an increasing prevalence of abnormal ABI in black African patients with SLE compared to controls with a correlation between disease activity and abnormal ABI.展开更多
Objective: To research and analyze the effect of psychological nursing intervention on self-rating depression (SDS), self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), Glasgow Score (GCS), Barthel index (Barthel, index, BI) of patients...Objective: To research and analyze the effect of psychological nursing intervention on self-rating depression (SDS), self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), Glasgow Score (GCS), Barthel index (Barthel, index, BI) of patients. Methods: From September 2015 to September 2016, 84 patients with craniocerebral injury admitted to our hospital were divided into observation group (n = 42) and control group (n = 42) according to randomized single blindness method. All patients were treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The control group was given routine nursing care, while the observation group was treated by psychological nursing intervention. Results: The scores of GCS in the observation group after 2 weeks and 8 weeks of treatment were respectively (7.79±1.42), (11.86±2.56) which were higher than those in the control group (6.23±1.01), (8.21±1.65) the data show significant difference. After treatment, the scores of SDS and SAS in the observation group were respectively (39.14±1.21), (41.67±1.12) which were lower than those in the control group (45.56±2.50), (56.89±2.47) the data show significant difference. The BI index of the observation group was (43.29±4.63), which was higher than that of the control group (36.83±3.10), the scores of NFD was (23.12±1.01) in the observation group, which was lower than that in the control group (28.45±1.67), the data were statistically significant. Conclusion: Psychological care intervention in patients with craniocerebral injury treated by hyperbaric oxygen therapy is helpful to improve the adverse psychological state and consciousness state, improve the ability of daily living activities and promote the recovery of neurological function. It can be actively promoted and applied in clinical practice.展开更多
文摘Background: Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is the least recognized form of atherosclerosis and may even result in amputation if the diagnosis is delayed. Manual pulse palpation is the traditional way to diagnose PAD. Doppler ultrasonographic measurement of ankle-brachial index (ABI) is the gold standard diagnosing method but requires training and is not necessarily available as an outpatient procedure. Using automated oscillometric blood pressure devices has been suggested as an easier method for measuring the ABI. Methods: A single observer palpated the arterial dorsalis pedis, examined hand joints and measured the ABI of one hundred diabetic patients using both Doppler and oscillometric methods. The purpose of this study was to compare the oscillometric method and the manual diagnosing methods to the gold standard method of using a hand held Doppler device for measuring the ABI and detecting PAD. Results: ABI was abnormal in 24 patients (24%) (22 males, 2 females) when measured with the Doppler method. Of these 24 patients, the oscillometric method would have missed 12 giving 12 false negatives. We found that the sensitivity of the oscillometric method was 50.0% and specificity 90.8%. Clinical examination with palpation of ADP combined with limited joint mobility (LJM) scoring would have missed only four cases. Conclusions: Although the oscillometric method is easy and accessible, it is not sensitive enough to be used as the only method in measuring ABI. The simple and inexpensive ADP pulse palpation combined with testing for LMJ was able to find 20 of the 24 (83%) patients with an abnormal ABI measured by Doppler stethoscope.
文摘Background: The present study was conducted to examine the association between various coronary risk factors and clinical parameters, with special emphasis on ankle-brachial index, in predicting the severity and complexity of coronary artery disease. Methods: Patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease at our hospital between September-2012 and December-2014 were examined in this study. Selected patients were screened for cardiovascular risk factors including diabetes, hypertension, smoking, and alcohol habits as well as for clinical parameters including body-mass index, waist-hip ratio, ankle-brachial index, and ejection fraction. All patients underwent coronary angiography and were evaluated for severity of coronary artery disease (based on number of vessels involved) and complexity of coronary angiographic lesions (measured by computer-assisted Syntax score calculator). The collected data were analyzed to determine the role of cardiovascular risk factors and clinical parameters as predictors of complexity and severity of coronary artery disease. Results: A total of 211 patients (mean age: 54.64 ± 9.9 years;81% males) with coronary artery disease were analyzed. Findings revealed that diabetes mellitus (p < 0.001), hypertension (p < 0.001), smoking habits (p = 0.036), and low ankle-brachial index (p < 0.001) were independent predictors of complex coronary artery disease as measured by Syntax score. Significant associations were also evident between severity of coronary artery disease and diabetes mellitus (p < 0.001), hypertension (p < 0.001), and ankle-brachial index (p < 0.001). Conversely, other cardiovascular risk factors including body-mass index, alcohol habits, wait-hip ratio, and ejection fraction did not exhibit significant associations with severity and complexity of coronary artery. Conclusions: The early diagnosis of coronary artery can be predicated by evaluating diabetes, hypertension, and smoking habits in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome. In addition, ankle-brachial index can be used as an effective non-invasive bed-side tool, as an alternative to Syntax score, in predicting the severity and complexity of coronary artery disease.
文摘The incidence of ischemic stroke in patients with diabetes is increasing. While brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (BaPWV) and ankle-bra- chial index (ABI) are known to be associated with ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, whether these measures predict the risk of ischemic cerebrovascular disease in diabetic patients remains unclear. 117 patients with type 2 diabetes were enrolled in this study. According to the results of head magnetic resonance imaging, the patients were divided into a diabetes-only group (n = 55) and a diabetes and ischemic stroke group (n = 62). We then performed ABI and BaPWV examinations for all patients. Compared with the diabe- tes-only group, we found decreased ABI and increased BaPWV in the diabetes and ischemic stroke group. Multivariate logistic regression analyses revealed that BaPWV and ABI were risk factors for ischemic stroke in patients with type 2 diabetes. Our findings indicate that decreased ABI and increased BaPWV are objective indicators of increased risk of ischemic stroke in patients with type 2 diabetes.
文摘Objective To assess the association between 1-year risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and ankle-brachial index (ABI) in Chinese patients who were at high CVD risk. Methods Totally 3733 patients with high CV risk had bilateral ABI measurements at baseline and were followed up for 1-1.5 years. Patients were divided to four groups: 1) coronary heart disease (CHD); 2) ischemic stroke (IS); 3) diabetes mellitus (DM); 4) very high risk group(VHR), low ABI was defined as 〈0.9. Results A total of 3179 patients were analyzed. The prevalence of low ABI was 28.1%. At 1 year, all-cause mortality was 8.7%, and 27.6% was attributable to CVD; mortality due to CV events was 4.8% and 1.5%. After adjusting other risk factors the hazard ratio of low ABI was 1.623 for all-cause mortality and 2.304 for CVD mortality. Similar in patient with and without low ABI, respectively were found in four groups.Conclusion ABI is a strong and independent predictor ofrnortality. Patients with a low ABI have a substantially increased risk of all-cause mortality and CVD mortality (J Geriatr Cardio12010; 7:17-20).
文摘<strong>Objective</strong>: <span><span><span style="font-family:verdana;">This study evaluates the association of self-reported race with</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> change in ankle-brachial index (ABI) over time and modification of this association by paraoxonase gene (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">PON</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">1,</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> PON</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> and PON</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">3) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). </span></span><b><span style="font-family:verdana;">Methods: </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">This longitudinal study included 11,992 (N</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">=</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">2952 Black,</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">N</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">=</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">9040 White) participants from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Com</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">munities (ARIC) cohort with PON genotyping. Mixed-effects models ex</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">amined whether race was associated with change in ABI over time after adjustment for known peripheral artery disease (PAD) risk factors.</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><b><span style="font-family:verdana;">Results:</span></b><i><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span></i><span style="font-family:verdana;">Change in ABI over time differed between Whites and Blacks (race-time interaction,</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">p</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">0.0001). Stratified analyses showed that ABI values were better in both Blacks and Whites who completed high school or more education compared to those who completed less education. None of the </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">PON</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> SNPs met the significance level (p</span></span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><</span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">0.001) after Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons. </span><b><span style="font-family:verdana;">Conclusions:</span></b><i><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"> </span></i><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ABI differences by race were small and although statistically signif</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">icant, may not be clinically significant. Change in ABI over time varies by</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> race and may be modified by education. Results suggest that higher education may influence the lifestyle and behavioral choices contributing to better ABI in both Blacks and Whites</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. Further studies are needed to confirm this observation.</span></span></span></span></span>
文摘Introduction: The peripheral artery disease (PAD) is one of the chronic and frightening vascular complications of the diabetes whose tracking can be done by the Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) measurement. We conducted in this context a study which consisted in measuring the ABI among hospitalized diabetic patients at Teaching Hospital of Pikine in Dakar, over 18 months’ duration. The aim was to determine the prevalence and evaluate factors correlated to the presence of the PAD. Patients and Method: This cross-sectional descriptive study interested the whole of diabetic patients hospitalized in Internal Medicine/Endocrinology Department, from January 2013 to June 2014. We carried out a complete clinical examination associated with ABI measurement by a Doppler probe for each included patient after having collected the clinical and paraclinical data. Results: Our population of study comprised 209 diabetic patients with a female predominance (126, 60.3%). The sex-ratio man/woman was 0.6. The median age of the population of study was 54 ± 2 years. In our series, 157 (75.1%) patients discovered their diabetes with the waning of an affection while the 52 (24.9%) other patients discovered their diabetes at the time of a systematic assessment. The PAD appeared by an intermittent claudication among 38 patients (18.2%). The ABI was normal for 126 patients (60.3%). The ABI was low for 51 patients (24.4%), unilateral in 3.8% of cases and bilateral in 20.6% of cases. The ABI was high among 32 patients (15.3%), unilateral in 7.2% of cases and bilateral in 8.1% of cases. The ABI extremes values were 0.11 and 2. In the population of study, 46 patients (22%) had a well-compensated PAD. The PAD was low compensated for 3 patients (1.4%) and severe for 2 patients (1%). The ABI was more frequent and significantly among women than men, with 32 cases (25.4%) against 19 (22.9%) cases (p = 0.021). The proportion of low ABI was more important among patients whose diabetes had evolved for more than 5 years (42.3% of cases) with a peak of frequency in the duration of 6 - 10 years (47.7% of cases). Conclusion: The PAD global prevalence among hospitalized diabetic patients appeared high with 24.4% patients presenting low ABI. Its early diagnosis among subjects at risk as for our study population allowed identifying asymptomatic subjects having another cardiovascular damage. Thus, the screening of obstructive arteriopathy of lower limb PAD by the measurement of ABI should be applied to all diabetic patients for a better assessment of atherosclerotic complication.
文摘Background: In new outpatients, blood pressure should be measured in both arms. A previous study reported that an inter-arm systolic blood pressure difference (ΔSBP) of ≥10 mm Hg is associated with an increased risk of mortality. Aim: The aim was to identify the associations with absolute values of ΔSBP (|ΔSBP|) ≥10 mm Hg. Subjects and Methods: This study included 2481 patients. Patients with a body mass index ≥25 kg/m<sup>2</sup> were defined as obese. The group of A was defined as following: ankle-brachial index (ABI) was <0.9 or ≥1.3. ΔSBP was expressed as right arm BP minus left arm BP. |ΔSBP| ≥10 mm Hg were analyzed using multivariate logistic analysis. Results: |ΔSBP| ≥10 mm Hg was found in 6.0% of patients and |ΔSBP| < 5 mm Hg in 80.4%. In multivariate analysis, the odds ratios (ORs) of the associations with |ΔSBP| ≥10 mm Hg were significantly associated with abnormal ABI and obesity regardless of sex and age. Moreover, the OR of the combined effects of abnormal ABI and obesity was higher than that of abnormal ABI and obesity alone. Conclusion: |ΔSBP| ≥10 mm Hg was associated with abnormal ABI and obesity. In a primary care setting, blood pressure should be actively measured in both arms. This study suggests that the associations with |ΔSBP| ≥10 mm Hg may be a useful part of screening for abnormal ABI.
文摘Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with accelerated atherosclerosis and increasing cardiovascular risk which is recognized as a major cause of morbidity and death. Whether subclinical atherosclerosis has been evaluated by several methods, there are very limited data about Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. The aim of the present study was to compare this index, between SLE patients and controls. We conducted a case-control study in the Department of Internal Medicine of our institution during the period from August 1, 2017 to December 31, 2018. We included 100 subjects, including 50 SLE patients and 50 control cases. This included 44 women and 6 men in patients with an identical distribution in controls. The mean age was 33.5 ± 11.3 years for cases and 33.3 ± 11.3 years (p-value: 0.93) for controls subjects. There was higher frequency of cardiovascular risk factors such as dyslipidemia (p-value at 0.009), low level of serum HDL-cholesterol (p-value??0.001), hypertriglyceridemia (p-value at 0.000) and hyperuricemia (p-value at 0.000) in patients with SLE. Overweight/obesity was higher in controls subjects (p-value at 0.028). There was no statistically significant difference in the frequency of diabetes-mellitus, smoking and high blood pressure. The abnormally ABI was recorded in 19 patients with SLE (38%) and 8 controls (16%) with a p-value: 0.01 and odds ratio: 3.22. Eight patients (16%) and four controls (8%) had low ABI without significant difference (p-value: 0.11 but odds-ratio at 2.98). Eleven patients with SLE (22%) and five controls (10%) had high ABI (p-value: 0.05 and odds-ratio: 3.24). In patients with SLE only disease activity (cSLEDAI) at the inclusion of the study was correlated?to abnormal ABI.?Conclusion:?This study showed an increasing prevalence of abnormal ABI in black African patients with SLE compared to controls with a correlation between disease activity and abnormal ABI.
文摘Objective: To research and analyze the effect of psychological nursing intervention on self-rating depression (SDS), self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), Glasgow Score (GCS), Barthel index (Barthel, index, BI) of patients. Methods: From September 2015 to September 2016, 84 patients with craniocerebral injury admitted to our hospital were divided into observation group (n = 42) and control group (n = 42) according to randomized single blindness method. All patients were treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The control group was given routine nursing care, while the observation group was treated by psychological nursing intervention. Results: The scores of GCS in the observation group after 2 weeks and 8 weeks of treatment were respectively (7.79±1.42), (11.86±2.56) which were higher than those in the control group (6.23±1.01), (8.21±1.65) the data show significant difference. After treatment, the scores of SDS and SAS in the observation group were respectively (39.14±1.21), (41.67±1.12) which were lower than those in the control group (45.56±2.50), (56.89±2.47) the data show significant difference. The BI index of the observation group was (43.29±4.63), which was higher than that of the control group (36.83±3.10), the scores of NFD was (23.12±1.01) in the observation group, which was lower than that in the control group (28.45±1.67), the data were statistically significant. Conclusion: Psychological care intervention in patients with craniocerebral injury treated by hyperbaric oxygen therapy is helpful to improve the adverse psychological state and consciousness state, improve the ability of daily living activities and promote the recovery of neurological function. It can be actively promoted and applied in clinical practice.