Association between abdominal adiposity and 20-year subsequent aortic stiffness in an initially healthy population-based cohort

K. Chau (1, 2, 3) , N. Girerd (1, 3) , E. Bozec (1, 3) , J. P. Ferreira (1, 3, 4) , K. Duarte (1, 3) , Julie-Anne Nazare (5, 6) , M. Laville (6) , A. Benetos (1, 3) , F. Zannad (1, 3) , J. M. Boivin (1, 2, 3) , P. Rossignol (1, 3)

1 CIC-P - Centre d'investigation clinique plurithématique Pierre Drouin [Nancy]
2 Département de médecine générale [Univ. Lorraine]
3 INI-CRCT - Cardiovascular and Renal Clinical Trialists [Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy]
4 Universidade do Porto = University of Porto
5 CRNH-RA - Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine Rhône-Alpes
6 CarMeN - Cardiovasculaire, métabolisme, diabétologie et nutrition

Keywords: men; obesity; mortality; aortic stiffness; arterial stiffness; cardiovascular risk-factors; initially healthy adults; longitudinal cohort study; hypertension; gender; pulse-wave velocity; pulse wave velocity; visceral adiposity; Cardiovascular System & Cardiology; blood-pressure

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

K. Chau, N. Girerd, E. Bozec, J. P. Ferreira, K. Duarte, et al.. Association between abdominal adiposity and 20-year subsequent aortic stiffness in an initially healthy population-based cohort. Journal of Hypertension, 2018, 36 (10), pp.2077-2084. ⟨10.1097/HJH.0000000000001796⟩. ⟨hal-02003428⟩