on November 3, 2005
Published online before print November 3, 2005, doi: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000194077.23234.ae
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Submitted on June 6, 2005
Accepted on October 24, 2005
Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis Is Related to Reduced Regional Left Ventricular Function in Individuals Without History of Clinical Cardiovascular Disease. The Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Study
Thor Edvardsen ;
From the Division of Cardiology (T.E., B.D.R., L.P., J.A.C.L.), Department of Epidemiology (S.L.), and Department of Radiology (D.A.B.,J.A.C.L.), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Division of Cardiology (R.D.), University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Torrance, CA; Department of Radiology (J.J.C.), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC; Department of Preventive Medicine (K.L.), Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; and Department of Medicine and Epidemiology (S.S.), Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jlima{at}jhmi.edu.
Objective--We investigated whether regional coronary calcium score by computed tomography is related to regional left ventricular systolic function measured by MRI tagging in participants of the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
Methods and Results--The Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis is a prospective observational study of men and women without a history of previous heart disease from 4 ethnic groups. Calcium scores were measured separately for the left anterior descendent (LAD), left circumflex (LCX), and right (RCA) coronary arteries. Left ventricular strain and strain rate were determined by tagged MRI in the corresponding vascular territories of the coronary vessels in 509 participants. Greater coronary calcification in the LAD, LCX, and right RCA coronary arteries were related to worse function in their respective perfusion. Anterior wall strain rate was -1.37±0.41 when LAD calcium was zero versus -1.17±0.24 1/s in the highest quartile of calcium score (P<0.001). Similar relationships were evident in the LCX and RCA regions. Participants with 1- and 2-vessel coronary artery calcium had better myocardial function in the remote area compared with the territory supplied by the diseased artery.
Conclusions--High-local calcium score is related to regional dysfunction in the corresponding coronary territory among individuals without a history of previous heart disease. These results indicate a link between atherosclerosis and subclinical regional left ventricular dysfunction. (Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2006;26:000-000.)
Key words: atherosclerosis • coronary circulation • calcification • MRI • myocardial function
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