Relation Of Ankle Brachial Index (ABI) With The Other Traditional Risk Factors For Cardiovascular

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the relation of ankle brachial index (ABI) with the other traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease(CVD).METHODS: A total of 2005 participants with a full data were selected from the survey of risk factors of CVD, a part of Chinese"SHIWU"tasks that tackle key problem, carried out in Guangxi province, 2004. The relationship of ABI with the other risk factors of CVD was analyzed by bivariate analysis and multivariate Logistic regression. T-test used in participants having risk factors vs the inverse. The risk factors of CVD include age, sex, hypertension, high levels of total cholesterol, high levels of fasting plasma glucose, low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, overweight or obesity, smoking habit etc.RESULTS:By bivariate analysis, the ABI is associated with sex, body mass index(BMI), diastolic blood pressure(DBP), total cholesterol(TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL-C), smoking habit. Analyzed by multivariate logistic regression, factors that mainly influence the ABI include sex, age, hypertension and smoking habit. Among the herd of the elders (≥60 years old), Smoking, age in men and hypertension in women is a powerful influencing factor of ABI. Mean ABI values±standard deviation were significant in the groups having risk factors of overweight or obesity(p=0.02), low levels of HDL cholesterol (p=0.04) and smoking habit (p<0.0001). No differences of mean ABI exist in subjects having hypertension, high levels of total cholesterol and high levels of fasting plasma glucose compared with non-hypertension, non-high levels of total cholesterol and non-high levels of fasting plasma glucose. Analyzed by multivariate logistic regression, factors that mainly influence the...