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Inflammatory/Hemostatic Biomarkers and Coronary Artery Calcium Progression in Women at Midlife (from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, Heart Study).

ABSTRACT: It is unknown whether inflammatory/hemostatic biomarkers are associated with coronary artery calcium (CAC) progression. Our purpose was to evaluate the associations of baseline levels of C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), tissue plasminogen activator antigen, and circulating factor VII with CAC progression in healthy midlife women. Inflammatory/hemostatic biomarkers were measured at baseline. CAC was quantified by computed tomography scans at baseline and after 2.3 ± 0.5 years of follow-up. Significant CAC progression was defined as present if (1) follow-up CAC Agatston score was >0 if baseline CAC score = 0; (2) annualized change in CAC score was ?10 if baseline CAC score >0 to <100; and (3) annualized percent change in CAC score was ?10% if baseline CAC score ?100. Extent of CAC progression was defined as [log(CAC(follow-up)+25) - log(CAC(baseline)+25)]/year. Logistic and linear regression models were used as appropriate, and the final models were adjusted for baseline CAC score, age, study site, race/ethnicity, menopausal status, sociodemographics, traditional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, family history of CVD, and CVD medication use. The study included 252 women (baseline age 51.2 ± 2.6 years; 67.5% white; 56.4% premenopausal or early perimenopausal). In final models, only log(PAI-1) was associated with presence of CAC progression (odds ratio 1.91, 95% CI 1.24 to 2.93; per 1 log unit increase in PAI-1; p = 0.003). In addition, higher log(PAI-1) was marginally associated with greater extent of CAC progression (p = 0.06). In conclusion, PAI-1 is associated with the presence of CAC progression in middle-aged women. Targeting PAI-1 may decrease atherogenesis beyond conventional CVD risk factors.

SUBMITTER: Wang NC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4949081 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Inflammatory/Hemostatic Biomarkers and Coronary Artery Calcium Progression in Women at Midlife (from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, Heart Study).

Wang Norman C NC Matthews Karen A KA Barinas-Mitchell Emma J M EJ Chang Chung-Chou H CC El Khoudary Samar R SR

The American journal of cardiology 20160514 3

It is unknown whether inflammatory/hemostatic biomarkers are associated with coronary artery calcium (CAC) progression. Our purpose was to evaluate the associations of baseline levels of C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), tissue plasminogen activator antigen, and circulating factor VII with CAC progression in healthy midlife women. Inflammatory/hemostatic biomarkers were measured at baseline. CAC was quantified by computed tomography scans at baseline and ...[more]

PMID: 27289291

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Project description:BACKGROUND:Little is known about the extent of exposure to metals and metal mixtures among midlife women. OBJECTIVES:We assessed exposure to multiple metals in the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN), a multi-site, multi-racial/ethnic cohort of women at midlife. METHODS:We measured urinary concentrations of 21 metals (arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, cesium, copper, mercury, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, lead, platinum, antimony, tin, thallium, uranium, vanadium, tungsten and zinc) using high-resolution inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry among 1335 white, black, Chinese and Japanese women aged 45-56?years?at the third SWAN annual visit (1999-2000). Least squared geometric mean concentrations were compared across race/ethnicity, education, financial hardship, smoking, secondhand smoking, seafood intake and rice intake groups. Overall exposure patterns of multiple metals were derived using k-means clustering method. RESULTS:The percentage of women with detectable concentrations of metals ranged from 100% for arsenic, cesium, molybdenum and zinc, to less than 5% for platinum; 15 metals had detection rates of 70% or more. Asian women, both Chinese and Japanese, had higher urinary concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, copper, mercury, molybdenum, lead and thallium, compared with other race/ethnic groups, independent of sociodemographic, lifestyle, dietary, and geographic characteristics. Seafood and rice intake were important determinants of urinary arsenic, cesium, mercury, molybdenum and lead levels. Two distinct overall exposure patterns- "high" vs. "low" -- were identified. Women in the "high" overall exposure pattern were more likely to be Asians, current smokers, and to report high consumption of seafood and rice. Black women were less likely to have the high exposure pattern. CONCLUSIONS:Metal exposure of midlife women differs by racial/ethnic, sociodemographic, lifestyle, dietary, and geographic characteristics. Asian women may be experiencing the highest exposures to multiple metals compared with other racial/ethnic groups in the United States.

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Inflammatory/Hemostatic Biomarkers and Coronary Artery Calcium Progression in Women at Midlife (from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, Heart Study).

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Inflammatory/Hemostatic Biomarkers and Coronary Artery Calcium Progression in Women at Midlife (from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, Heart Study).

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