Evaluation of Arterial Stiffness and Its Relation to Innovative Anthropometric Indices in Persian Adults

Zahra Ataee; Atena Aghaee; Seyyed Reza Sobhani; Elaheh Ebrahimi Miandehi; Parisa Pirzadeh; Maryam Alinezhad-Namaghi; Saeid Eslami; Sahar Sobhani

doi:10.1155/2023/2180923

Evaluation of Arterial Stiffness and Its Relation to Innovative Anthropometric Indices in Persian Adults

Int J Hypertens. 2023 Jan 23:2023:2180923. doi: 10.1155/2023/2180923. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Zahra Ataee¹, Atena Aghaee², Seyyed Reza Sobhani³, Elaheh Ebrahimi Miandehi⁴, Parisa Pirzadeh⁵, Maryam Alinezhad-Namaghi^{3

6}, Saeid Eslami⁷, Sahar Sobhani⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
² Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
³ Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
⁴ Persian Cohort Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
⁵ Community Health Nurse, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
⁶ International UNESCO Center for Health-Related Basic Sciences and Human Nutrition, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
⁷ Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

Abstract

Background: BMI has been evaluated as an old criterion to evaluate obesity in individuals, but it does not assess abdominal obesity and lean mass. We aimed to evaluate the possible relationship of new anthropometric indices (namely, a body shape index (ABSI), the body roundness index (BRI), the visceral adiposity index (VAI), the visceral fat area (VFA), and waist-hip ratio (WHR)), with one of the known critical factors of atherosclerosis, arterial stiffness.

Methods: Overall 5921 individuals were enrolled and were divided into four groups according to BMI. Novel anthropometric parameters including, ABSI, BRI, VAI, VFA, and WHR were calculated. The carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV) was used to evaluate arterial stiffness. Multiple regression analysis was performed to assess the relationship between cf-PWV and innovative Anthropometric indices.

Results: This study population consisted of 3109 women and 2812 males. In men with overweight, cf-PWV was significantly related to BMI, ABSI, BRI, WC, VAI, VFA, and WHR. However, among men with obesity, cf-PWV was associated with BRI, VAI, and VFA. Among women with overweight, cf-PWV was also related to all mentioned indices except ABSI; although, cf-PWV was only associated with VFA and WHR in women with obesity.

Conclusion: Our results showed that VFA in women and VAI in men are strongly related to arterial stiffness and can be used to identify predictors of vascular disease or organic vascular dysfunction.