Genetic and environmental factors on the relation of lung function and arterial stiffness

David Laszlo Tarnoki; Adam Domonkos Tarnoki; Zsofia Lazar; Emanuela Medda; Levente Littvay; Rodolfo Cotichini; Corrado Fagnani; Maria Antonietta Stazi; Lorenza Nisticó; Pierleone Lucatelli; Emanuele Boatta; Chiara Zini; Fabrizio Fanelli; Claudio Baracchini; Giorgio Meneghetti; Gyorgy Jermendy; István Préda; Róbert Gábor Kiss; Kinga Karlinger; Agnes Lannert; Giuseppe Schillaci; Andrea Agnes Molnar; Zsolt Garami; Viktor Berczi; Ildiko Horvath

doi:10.1016/j.rmed.2013.02.002

Genetic and environmental factors on the relation of lung function and arterial stiffness

David Laszlo Tarnoki^*, Adam Domonkos Tarnoki, Zsofia Lazar, Emanuela Medda, Levente Littvay, Rodolfo Cotichini, Corrado Fagnani, Maria Antonietta Stazi, Lorenza Nisticó, Pierleone Lucatelli, Emanuele Boatta, Chiara Zini, Fabrizio Fanelli, Claudio Baracchini, Giorgio Meneghetti, Gyorgy Jermendy, István Préda, Róbert Gábor Kiss, Kinga Karlinger, Agnes LannertGiuseppe Schillaci, Andrea Agnes Molnar, Zsolt Garami, Viktor Berczi, Ildiko Horvath

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Background: An association between reduced lung function and increased cardiovascular risk has been reported, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the heritability of lung function and to estimate its genetic association with arterial stiffness.

Methods: 150 monozygotic and 42 dizygotic healthy Hungarian and American Caucasian twin pairs (age 43 ± 17 years) underwent spirometry (forced vital capacity/FVC/, forced expiratory volume in 1 s/FEV₁/; MIR Minispir, USA); and their brachial and central augmentation indices (AIx), and aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) were measured by oscillometric Arteriograph (TensioMed Ltd, Budapest, Hungary). Phenotypic correlations and bivariate Cholesky decomposition models were applied.

Results: Age-, sex-, country- and smoking-adjusted heritability of FEV₁, percent predicted FEV₁, FVC and percent predicted FVC were 73% (95% confidence interval /CI/: 45-85%), 28% (95% CI: 0-67%), 68% (95% CI: 20-81%) and 45% (95% CI: 0-66%), respectively. Measured and percent predicted FVC and FEV₁ values showed no significant phenotypic correlations with AIx or aortic PWV, except for phenotypic twin correlations between measured FEV₁, FVC with brachial or aortic augmentation indices which ranged between -0.12 and -0.17. No genetic covariance between lung function and arterial stiffness was found.

Conclusions: Lung function is heritable and the measured FVC and FEV are phenotypically, but not genetically, associated with augmentation index, a measure of wave reflection. This relationship may in turn reveal further associations leading to a better mechanistic understanding of vascular changes in various airway diseases.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	927-935
Number of pages	9
Journal	Respiratory Medicine
Volume	107
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2013.02.002
State	Published - Jun 2013

Keywords

Augmentation index
Forced vital capacity
Genetics
Pulmonary function test
Pulse wave velocity

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Tarnoki, D. L., Tarnoki, A. D., Lazar, Z., Medda, E., Littvay, L., Cotichini, R., Fagnani, C., Stazi, M. A., Nisticó, L., Lucatelli, P., Boatta, E., Zini, C., Fanelli, F., Baracchini, C., Meneghetti, G., Jermendy, G., Préda, I., Kiss, R. G., Karlinger, K., ... Horvath, I. (2013). Genetic and environmental factors on the relation of lung function and arterial stiffness. Respiratory Medicine, 107(6), 927-935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2013.02.002

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Tarnoki, DL, Tarnoki, AD, Lazar, Z, Medda, E, Littvay, L, Cotichini, R, Fagnani, C, Stazi, MA, Nisticó, L, Lucatelli, P, Boatta, E, Zini, C, Fanelli, F, Baracchini, C, Meneghetti, G, Jermendy, G, Préda, I, Kiss, RG, Karlinger, K, Lannert, A, Schillaci, G, Molnar, AA, Garami, Z, Berczi, V & Horvath, I 2013, 'Genetic and environmental factors on the relation of lung function and arterial stiffness', Respiratory Medicine, vol. 107, no. 6, pp. 927-935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2013.02.002

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