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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://repositorio.insp.mx:8080/jspui/handle/20.500.12096/8403
Title: Association of recurrent common infections and subclinical cardiovascular disease in Mexican women
Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases / diagnostic imaging Cardiovascular Diseases / epidemiology* Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Cross-Sectional Studies Female Humans Infections / epidemiology* Mexico / epidemiology Middle Aged Prevalence Recurrence Risk Severity of Illness Index Ultrasonography nan
Issue Date: 2021
Publisher: nan
Abstract: Abstract Background: Acute and agent-specific chronic infections have been associated with increased cardiovascular risk, however data on the burden of common recurrent infections on cardiovascular disease is limited. We hypothesized women with greater exposure to uncomplicated common infectious events had an increased risk of subclinical cardiovascular disease (sCVD). Methods: In a cross-sectional study, we assessed the relation of recurrent infections and carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) in 1946 disease-free women from the Mexican Teachers Cohort. Through 2012-2016, participants answered structured questions on respiratory, urinary and vaginal infections during the previous year and their IMT was measured using ultrasound by standardized neurologists. We defined sCVD as mean right and left IMT 0.8 mm or the presence of atheromatous plaque. Multivariable linear and logistic regression analyses were used to evaluate the association of infectious events with IMT and sCVD adjusting for age, sociodemographic, and cardiovascular risk factors. Results: Among participants (505 years) 13 reported no infections, 20 one infection and 67 three or more episodes. Overall prevalence of sCVD was 12(n 240). Adjusted models for logistic regression showed that women with 2 or more infections had 91 higher odds of sCVD (OR 1.91; 95CI 1.16, 3.13) compared to women without infections (p-trend:0.015). Sub-analyses by type of infection resulted not significant. Linear regression analysis did not show a significant association between mean IMT and recurrent infections. Conclusions: Recurrent infectious events in young adult women are associated with greater sCVD, which supports the hypothesis of low-grade chronic inflammation in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease.
URI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7837493/pdf/pone.0246047.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246047.
http://repositorio.insp.mx:8080/jspui/handle/20.500.12096/8403
ISSN: 1932-6203
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