• Shih Ming-Chen Paul MP From the Department of Medical Imaging (M-CPS); Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism (M-YL); Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Med, Mei-Yueh Lee, Jiun-Chi Huang, Yi-Chun Tsai, Jui-Hsin Chen, Szu-Chia Chen, Jer-Ming Chang, and Hung-Chun Chen.
• From the Department of Medical Imaging (M-CPS); Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism (M-YL); Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital (J-CH, Y-CT, S-CC, J-MC, H-CC); Department of Internal Medicine (M-YL, J-CH, S-CC); Department of Nursing, Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital (J-HC); Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine (M-YL, Y-CT, S-CC, H-CC); and Department of Medical Imaging, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital; Taiwan Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (M-CPS), Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2016 May 1; 95 (19): e3643.

AbstractAortic arch calcification (AoAC) is associated with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in end-stage renal disease population. AoAC can be simply estimated with an AoAC score using plain chest radiography. The objective of this study is to evaluate the association of AoAC with brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) and cardiomegaly in patients who have undergoing hemodialysis (HD).We retrospectively determined AoAC and cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) by chest x-ray in 220 HD patients who underwent the measurement of baPWV. The values of baPWV were measured by an ankle-brachial index-form device. Multiple stepwise logistic regression analysis was used to identify the factors associated with AoAC score >4.Compared patients with AoAC score ≦4, patients with AoAC score >4 had older age, higher prevalence of diabetes and cerebrovascular disease, lower diastolic blood pressure, higher baPWV, higher CTR, higher prevalence of CTR ≧50%, lower total cholesterol, and lower creatinine level. After the multivariate stepwise logistic analysis, old age, cerebrovascular disease, high baPWV (per 100 cm/s, odds ratio [OR] 1.065, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.003-1.129, P = 0.038), CTR (per 1%, OR 1.116, 95% CI 1.046-1.191, P = 0.001), and low total cholesterol level were independently associated with AoAC score >4.Our study demonstrated AoAC severity was associated with high baPWV and high CTR in patients with HD. Therefore, we suggest that evaluating AoAC on plain chest radiography may be a simple and inexpensive method for detecting arterial stiffness in HD patients.

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