The risk of cardiovascular comorbidity in children with Behçet’s disease
Authors' conclusion
Paediatric BD patients with vascular involvement may tend to have more cardiovascular risk factors.
Study context
- Population
- Paediatric patients with Behçet's disease (BD) (2015 Peadiatric BD (PEDBD) criteria), without active disease or other known cardiovascular risk factors16 female, 51.6%
- Participants
- 31 patients
- Exposure
- Paediatric BD with vs without vascular involvement
- Outcome
- Abnormal ABPM
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
BD patients
34.4%
10 events
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT), mean arterial pressure, systolic and diastolic BP by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM); abnormal ABPM, non-dipping, ambulatory hypertension
- Similar between patients with and without vascular involvement
Echocardiography: left ventricle outflow tract velocity and velocity time integral
- Significantly higher in BD patients with vascular involvement, which may indicate increased stiffness of the aorta
Original publication
The risk of cardiovascular comorbidity in children with Behçet’s disease. Rheumatology (Oxford). Published 3 October 2023. doi:10.
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