ArticleDiabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association2025
Arterial stiffness and atherosclerosis and incident cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in individuals with manifest cardiovascular disease with and without type 2 diabetes.
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- Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway and Fatty Acid β-Oxidative Imbalance: A Key Mechanism by Which Abnormal Macrophage Lipophagy Promotes Atherosclerosis in Diabetes.Cardiovascular drugs and therapy · 2026Review
- Arterial stiffness and atherosclerosis and incident cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in individuals with manifest cardiovascular disease with and without type 2 diabetes.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2025Article
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backgroundIt is unclear if arterial stiffness and atherosclerosis are differentially related to cardiovascular events and mortality in individuals with manifest cardiovascular disease with and without type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and to what extent they mediate the relation between T2DM and these outcomes.
methodsProspective data were used from the UCC-SMART cohort, including individuals with manifest cardiovascular disease (n = 9465). Arterial stiffness (brachial pulse pressure and carotid artery distensibility coefficient (DC)) and atherosclerosis (presence of carotid plaque and ankle-brachial index <0.9) were determined. Cardiovascular events included non-fatal stroke, non-fatal myocardial infarction and cardiovascular death. Cox regression and structural equation models were used with adjustment for confounders.
resultsOver a median follow-up of 10.3 years, 2087 cardiovascular events and 2808 deaths occurred. Higher brachial pulse pressure was related to cardiovascular events and mortality in individuals with T2DM and without T2DM (HRs ≥ 1.09; 95% confidence intervals (CIs) between 1.03 and 1.30). Lower carotid artery DC was related to mortality in individuals with T2DM and without T2DM (hazard ratios (HRs) ≥ 1.20; 95% CI between 1.00 and 1.48), but only related to cardiovascular events in individuals without T2DM (HR 1.34; 95% CI between 1.20 and 1.49). Carotid and lower extremity atherosclerosis were both related to cardiovascular events and mortality in individuals with T2DM and without T2DM (HRs ≥ 1.52; 95% CI between 1.27 and 2.21). Up to 8.1% and 16.3% of the relation between T2DM and outcomes was mediated through arterial stiffness and atherosclerosis, respectively.
conclusionArterial stiffness and atherosclerosis are independently, but not differentially, related to cardiovascular events and mortality in individuals with manifest cardiovascular disease with and without T2DM. Atherosclerosis explained a larger proportion of the relation between T2DM and outcomes.
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