Relationship of brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity with carotid arterial intima-media thickness and carotid artery plaque in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the relationship between the brachial‐ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) with the ca‐rotid arterial intima‐media thickness(IMT) and carotid artery plaque in the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM) and to analyze the related risk factors causing atherosclerosis .Methods A total of 426 patients with T2DM were collected and conduct the records of baPWV ,carotid artery ultrasound ,biochemical index detection andrelated risk factors record .The correlation between baPWV with carotid arterial IMT was analyzed .The patients were divided into the abnormal group and normal group according to the baPWV results .The carotid artery IMT ,carotid artery plaque and related risk factors were compared between the two groups . Results The DM duration ,systolic blood pressure ,diastolic blood pressure ,pulse pressure ,low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL‐C) ,number of atherosclerosis risk factors had statistically significant differences between the two groups (P0 .05) .The detection rate of plaque by carotid artery ultrasound had no statistically signifi‐cant difference between the two groups(P>0 .05);but the statistically significant difference was found in the number of plaque be‐tween the two groups(P<0 .01) ,the abnormal group was obviously more than the normal group;the normal IMT ratio had statisti‐cally significant difference between the two groups(P<0 .05) ,the normal group was obviously higher than the abnormal group .The IMT value had statistical difference between the two groups(P<0 .01) ,which in the abnormal group was significantly thickened compared with the normal group .The analysis of correlation between baPWV and IMT showed that IMT was positively correlated with baPWV(r=0 .228 ,P<0 .05) .Conclusion T2DM patients with reduced arterial elasticity could complicated with the obvious thickening of carotid arterial IMT and increase of plaque number .Combining baPWV with carotid arterial ultrasound examination can better conduct the arteriosclerosis evaluation .