Relationship between ankle-brachial index and risk factors of cardiovascular diseases in elderly male ;patients in gerocomium of Laoting County
MU Chun-hua
LI Wei-wei
YANG Guo-rui
LI Jing
WANG Wei
ZHANG Zhi-hui
ZHANG Jing
ZHANG Hong-ye
Abstract：Objective To investigate the relationship between ankle-brachial index (ABI) and risk factors of cardiovascular diseases in elderly male patients. Methods A survey was carried out in 355 male cases aged over 60 from 4 gerocomiums. The content of questionnaire included general condition, smoking and drinking history, individual disease history and family history. The physical examination included body measure, blood pressure measure for 3 times and ABI detection. The patients with ABI<0.9 were assigned as abnormal group and those with ABI from 0.9 to 1.4 as normal group. The indexes of blood sugar and blood fat were detected after collecting fasting vein blood, and the ABI-related risk factors were analyzed by using SPSS software. Results The cases in abnormal group accounted for 11.3%of all patients. Partial correlation analysis (controlling age) showed that ABI was negatively correlated to waistline, TC, TG and LDL-C (all P<0.05). The analysis on common risk factors of cardiovascular diseases (abnormal waistline, blood pressure, blood sugar and blood fat and smoking) showed that the proportion of patients with more than 3 risk factors was significantly higher in abnormal group than that in normal group (62.6%vs. 37.5%, P=0.003). Multiple Logistic analysis showed that age (1.095, 95%CI:1.042-1.151), LDL-C (OR=1.973, 95%CI:1.252-3.111), TG (OR=1.522, 95%CI:1.065-2.174) and smoking (OR=2.537, 95%CI:1.205-5.339) were independent risk factors of abnormal ABI. Conclusion The population with decreased ABI has significant cluster of risk factors of cardiovascular diseases, and age, LDL-C, TG and smoking are independent risk factors.
Keywords：GerocomiumElderly male patientsAnkle-brachial indexRisk factors
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 594-596 )