《Association between serum homocysteine and arterial stiffness in elderlya communitybased study》.pdfVIP

JournalofGeriatric Cardiology(2014)11：32—38 @2014JGCAll rightsreserved；www．jgc301．com■ Access· ·Open Association betweenserum andarterialstiffnessin homocysteine elderly： acommunity-based study SongZHANGl，2，Yong．YiBAll，Lei．MingLU01，Wen—Kai YEl XIA01，Hong—MeiWUl，Ping 2School ofMedicine,NankaiUniversity,NO 300071，China 94,WeijinRoad,Tianjin Abstract Arterialstiffnessand areboth of in cardiovascular older Background homocysteinepowerfulpredictors disease．especiallypopula— tions．Previousstudieshave the associationof witharterialstiffnessinhuman the investigated homocysteine subjects．whilerelationship between in andarterialstiffnessthe isstillindefinite．Thecurrentexaminedtheassociation with homocysteine elderly study ofhomocysteine in arterialstiffnessChinese Werelatedserumlevels totwomeasuresofarte． community—basedelderlypersons．Methods ofhomocysteine rial wave carotid-indial780 71．9 stiffness(carotid—femoralvelocity伊wV)andPwV)in pulse