TY - JOUR TI - Usefulness of the SAGE score to predict elevated values of brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity in Japanese subjects with hypertension AU - Tomiyama, H. AU - Vlachopoulos, C. AU - Xaplanteris, P. AU - Nakano, H. AU - Shiina, K. AU - Ishizu, T. AU - Kohro, T. AU - Higashi, Y. AU - Takase, B. AU - Suzuki, T. AU - Yamazaki, T. AU - Furumoto, T. AU - Kario, K. AU - Inoue, T. AU - Koba, S. AU - Takemoto, Y. AU - Hano, T. AU - Sata, M. AU - Ishibashi, Y. AU - Node, K. AU - Tanaka, A. AU - Maemura, K. AU - Ohya, Y. AU - Furukawa, T. AU - Ito, H. AU - Ohkuma, T. AU - Ninomiya, T. AU - Chikamori, T. AU - Yamashina, A. AU - Ueda, S.-I. JO - Hypertension Research PY - 2020 VL - 43 TODO - 11 SP - 1284-1292 PB - Springer Nature BV SN - 0916-9636, 1348-4214 TODO - 10.1038/s41440-020-0472-7 TODO - cholesterol; creatinine; high density lipoprotein cholesterol, adult; aged; Article; atrial fibrillation; brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity; Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation; cohort analysis; controlled study; cross-sectional study; diagnostic test accuracy study; diastolic blood pressure; estimated glomerular filtration rate; female; glucose blood level; human; hypertension; Japanese (people); kidney function; major clinical study; male; mathematical parameters; multicenter study; observational study; prospective study; receiver operating characteristic; SAGE score; scoring system; sensitivity and specificity; systolic blood pressure; waveform; health status indicator; hypertension; Japan; middle aged; pathophysiology; pulse wave, Adult; Aged; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Health Status Indicators; Humans; Hypertension; Japan; Male; Middle Aged; Pulse Wave Analysis TODO - The score based on the office systolic blood pressure, age, fasting blood glucose level, and estimated glomerular filtration rate (SAGE score) has been proposed as a useful marker to identify elevated values of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV). The present cross-sectional study was conducted to examine whether the SAGE score is also a useful marker to identify subjects with elevated brachial-ankle PWV values in Japanese subjects with hypertension. We measured the brachial-ankle PWV and calculated the SAGE score in a total of 1019 employees of a Japanese company with hypertension and 817 subjects with hypertension derived from a multicenter study cohort. The analyses in this study were based on data from these two study groups as well as on a composite population of the two (n = 1836). The receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that the area under the curve to identify subjects with brachial-ankle PWV values of ≥1800 cm/s was over 0.70 in each of the three study groups. Even after adjustments, a SAGE score ≥7 had a significant odds ratio for identifying subjects with brachial-ankle PWV values ≥1800 cm/s in the 1836 study subjects from the composite occupational and multicenter study cohort (odds ratio = 2.1, 95% confidence interval = 1.4–3.0, P < 0.01). Thus, in Japanese subjects with hypertension, the SAGE score may be a useful marker for identifying subjects with elevated brachial-ankle PWV values. © 2020, The Japanese Society of Hypertension. ER -