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Association Between Fasting Glucose Variability in Young Adulthood and the Progression of Coronary Artery Calcification in Middle Age

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posted on 2020-08-24, 22:46 authored by Weijing Feng, Zhibin Li, Wenjie Guo, Xianglin Fan, Feiran Zhou, Kun Zhang, Caiwen Ou, Feifei Huang, Minsheng Chen
OBJECTIVE

To investigate whether intraindividual variability of fasting glucose (FG) in young adulthood is associated with coronary artery calcification (CAC) progression in middle age.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

We included 2,256 CARDIA (Coronary Artery Risk Development Study in Young Adults) participants with CAC assessment by computed tomography scanner at baseline (2000–2001) and 10 years later (2010-2011). CAC progression was assessed for each individual as the difference of logarithmic CAC scores at follow-up and baseline (log [CAC (follow-up) + 1] - log [CAC (baseline) + 1]). FG variability was defined by the coefficient of variation about the mean FG (FG-CV), the SD of FG (FG-SD), and the average real variability of FG (FG-ARV) during 10-year follow-up. We investigated the association between FG variability and CAC progression with adjustment for demographics, clinical risk factors, mean FG level, change in FG level, diabetes incidence and medication use.

RESULTS

After multivariable adjustment, 1-SD increment in FG-CV was associated with worse progression of CAC as demonstrated as percent change in CAC with 5.9% (incident CAC, 95% CI 1.0%, 10.7%) and 6.7% (any CAC progression, 95% CI 2.3%, 11.1%) progression during 10 years. Similar findings were also observed in FG-SD and FG-ARV.

CONCLUSIONS

Higher FG variability during young adulthood was associated with greater CAC progression in middle age, suggesting its value in predicting risk for subclinical coronary artery diseases.

Funding

The CARDIA study is conducted and supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (HHSN268201300025C and HHSN268201300026C), Northwestern University (HHSN268201300027C), University of Minnesota (HHSN268201300028C), Kaiser Foundation Research Institute (HHSN268201300029C), and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (HHSN268200900041C). CARDIA is also partially supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and an intra-agency agreement between NIA and NHLBI (AG0005). Additional support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81700258 to F.H.; 31671025, 31771099 and 81871504 to C.O.; U1501222, 31771060 and 81971765 to M.C.).

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