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Associations of Candidate Biomarkers of Vascular Disease with the Ankle-Brachial Index and Peripheral Arterial Disease
Author(s) -
Z. Ye,
Z. Ali,
George G. Klee,
Thomas H. Mosley,
Iftikhar J. Kullo
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1941-7225
pISSN - 0895-7061
DOI - 10.1093/ajh/hps073
Subject(s) - medicine , peripheral , arterial disease , cardiology , ankle , arterial stiffness , disease , vascular disease , brachial artery , blood pressure , surgery
The use of multiple biomarkers representing various etiologic pathways of atherosclerosis may improve the prediction of interindividual variation in the ankle-brachial index (ABI). To this end, we investigated associations of 47 candidate biomarkers with the ABI and presence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in African-Americans (AAs) and non-Hispanic whites (NHWs).

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