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SUBMITTER: Shah AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6444355 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shah Amy S AS El Ghormli Laure L Gidding Samuel S SS Bacha Fida F Nadeau Kristen J KJ Levitt Katz Lorraine E LE Tryggestad Jeanie B JB Leibel Natasha N Hale Daniel E DE Urbina Elaine M EM
Journal of diabetes and its complications 20180525 8
<h4>Aims</h4>We aimed to determine the prevalence of arterial stiffness in young adults with youth-onset type 2 diabetes who previously participated in the TODAY clinical trial and whether arterial stiffness is influenced by their prior diabetes treatment assignment or glycemic control.<h4>Methods</h4>We measured arterial stiffness by femoral, radial, and foot pulse wave velocity (PWV), augmentation index (AIx), and brachial distensibility (BrachD) in 453 TODAY participants (age 20.8 ± 2.5 years ...[more]