dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-20T13:34:10Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-05T13:42:52Z
dc.date.available2014-05-20T13:34:10Z
dc.date.available2022-10-05T13:42:52Z
dc.date.created2014-05-20T13:34:10Z
dc.date.issued2010-01-01
dc.identifierClinics. São Paulo: Hospital Clinicas, Univ São Paulo, v. 65, n. 12, p. 1325-1327, 2010.
dc.identifier1807-5932
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/11708
dc.identifier10.1590/S1807-59322010001200016
dc.identifierS1807-59322010001200016
dc.identifierWOS:000288493400016
dc.identifierS1807-59322010001200016.pdf
dc.identifier2543633050941005
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/3887674
dc.description.abstractINTRODUCTION: Peripheral arterial disease is a severe manifestation of atherosclerosis that can lead to critical ischemia of the lower limbs and is also associated with high cardiovascular risk. Diagonal lobular and anterior tragal ear creases have been associated with coronary artery disease, but they have not yet been investigated in patients with peripheral arterial disease.OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the prevalence of ear creases among patients with peripheral arterial disease of the lower limbs, compared with patients without documented atherosclerotic disease.METHODS: Cross-sectional study including 60 male patients with peripheral arterial disease of the lower limbs and 60 dermatologic outpatients matched for age and gender. The associations were adjusted for other risk factors by conditional logistic regression.RESULTS: The prevalence of diagonal and anterior tragal ear creases was higher among cases (73% vs. 25% and 80% vs. 43%, respectively) than controls; these associations remained significant even when adjusting for other known risk factors of atherosclerosis (odds ratio = 8.1 and 4.1, respectively).CONCLUSIONS: Ear creases are independently associated with peripheral arterial disease and may be an external marker for risk identification.
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidade de São Paulo (USP), Hospital das Clínicas
dc.relationClinics
dc.relation1.245
dc.relation0,536
dc.rightsAcesso aberto
dc.sourceWeb of Science
dc.subjectEar
dc.subjectAtherosclerosis
dc.subjectPeripheral
dc.subjectArterial
dc.subjectDisease
dc.titleAssociation between ear creases and peripheral arterial disease
dc.typeArtigo


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