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Carbone L, Bůžková P, Fink HA, Robbins JA, Barzilay JI, Elam RE, Isales C, Connelly MA, Mukamal KJ. Plasma Levels of Branched Chain Amino Acids, Incident Hip Fractures, and Bone Mineral Density of the Hip and Spine. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2023; 108:e1358-e1364. [PMID: 37200158 PMCID: PMC11009785 DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgad275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2022] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Branched chain amino acids (BCAA) are building blocks for protein, an essential component of bone. However, the association of plasma levels of BCAA with fractures in populations outside of Hong Kong or with hip fractures in particular is not known. The purpose of these analyses was to determine the relationship of BCAA including valine, leucine, and isoleucine and total BCAA (SD of the sum of Z-scores for each BCAA) with incident hip fractures and bone mineral density (BMD) of the hip and lumbar spine in older African American and Caucasian men and women in the Cardiovascular Health Study. DESIGN Longitudinal analyses of association of plasma levels of BCAA with incident hip fractures and cross-sectional BMD of the hip and lumbar spine from the Cardiovascular Health Study. SETTING Community. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1850 men (38% of cohort) and women; mean age 73 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Incident hip fractures and cross-sectional BMD of the total hip, femoral neck, and lumbar spine. RESULTS In fully adjusted models, over 12 years of follow-up, we observed no significant association between incident hip fracture and plasma values of valine, leucine, isoleucine, or total BCAA per 1 SD higher of each BCAA. Plasma values of leucine but not valine, isoleucine, or total BCAA, were positively and significantly associated with BMD of the total hip (P = .03) and femoral neck (P = .02), but not the lumbar spine (P = .07). CONCLUSIONS Plasma levels of the BCAA leucine may be associated with higher BMD in older men and women. However, given the lack of significant association with hip fracture risk, further information is needed to determine whether BCAAs would be novel targets for osteoporosis therapies.
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- Laura Carbone
- J. Harold Harrison, MD, Distinguished University Chair in Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
- Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95817, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Kaiser Permanente of Georgia, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
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- Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
- J. Harold Harrison, MD, Distinguished University Chair in Aging, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Wang YZ, Zhao W, Ammous F, Song Y, Du J, Shang L, Ratliff SM, Moore K, Kelly KM, Needham BL, Diez Roux AV, Liu Y, Butler KR, Kardia SLR, Mukherjee B, Zhou X, Smith JA. DNA Methylation Mediates the Association Between Individual and Neighborhood Social Disadvantage and Cardiovascular Risk Factors. Front Cardiovasc Med 2022; 9:848768. [PMID: 35665255 PMCID: PMC9162507 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.848768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2022] [Accepted: 04/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Low socioeconomic status (SES) and living in a disadvantaged neighborhood are associated with poor cardiovascular health. Multiple lines of evidence have linked DNA methylation to both cardiovascular risk factors and social disadvantage indicators. However, limited research has investigated the role of DNA methylation in mediating the associations of individual- and neighborhood-level disadvantage with multiple cardiovascular risk factors in large, multi-ethnic, population-based cohorts. We examined whether disadvantage at the individual level (childhood and adult SES) and neighborhood level (summary neighborhood SES as assessed by Census data and social environment as assessed by perceptions of aesthetic quality, safety, and social cohesion) were associated with 11 cardiovascular risk factors including measures of obesity, diabetes, lipids, and hypertension in 1,154 participants from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). For significant associations, we conducted epigenome-wide mediation analysis to identify methylation sites mediating the relationship between individual/neighborhood disadvantage and cardiovascular risk factors using the JT-Comp method that assesses sparse mediation effects under a composite null hypothesis. In models adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, smoking, medication use, and genetic principal components of ancestry, epigenetic mediation was detected for the associations of adult SES with body mass index (BMI), insulin, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), as well as for the association between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and HDL-C at FDR q < 0.05. The 410 CpG mediators identified for the SES-BMI association were enriched for CpGs associated with gene expression (expression quantitative trait methylation loci, or eQTMs), and corresponding genes were enriched in antigen processing and presentation pathways. For cardiovascular risk factors other than BMI, most of the epigenetic mediators lost significance after controlling for BMI. However, 43 methylation sites showed evidence of mediating the neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and HDL-C association after BMI adjustment. The identified mediators were enriched for eQTMs, and corresponding genes were enriched in inflammatory and apoptotic pathways. Our findings support the hypothesis that DNA methylation acts as a mediator between individual- and neighborhood-level disadvantage and cardiovascular risk factors, and shed light on the potential underlying epigenetic pathways. Future studies are needed to fully elucidate the biological mechanisms that link social disadvantage to poor cardiovascular health.
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- Yi Zhe Wang
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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Rosenberg EA, Bůžková P, Fink HA, Robbins JA, Shores MM, Matsumoto AM, Mukamal KJ. Testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, bone density, and hip fracture risk among older men: The Cardiovascular Health Study. Metabolism 2021; 114:154399. [PMID: 33058848 PMCID: PMC9060596 DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2020.154399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Revised: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 09/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Little is known about the relationships of dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a more potent androgen than testosterone (T), with bone mineral density (BMD) and fracture risk. Our objectives were to evaluate the relationships of T, DHT and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) with BMD, fracture risk, and lean body mass (LBM). METHODS We evaluated 1128 older men free of cardiovascular disease in a prospective cohort study using data from the Cardiovascular Health Study. T and DHT were measured by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry and SHBG by fluoroimmunoassay. Our outcomes included incident hip fracture (n = 106) over a median of 10.2 years and BMD and LBM by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (n = 439). RESULTS In Cox regression models mutually adjusted for T, SHBG, and covariates, each standard deviation increment in DHT (0.23 ng/ml) was associated with a 26% lower risk of hip fracture (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 0.74, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.55-1.00, p = 0.049). Similarly, SHBG was associated with fracture in mutually adjusted models (aHR HR 1.26, 95% CI, 1.01-1.58, p = 0.045). In contrast, T (aHR, 1.16, 95% CI, 0.86-1.56, p = 0.324) was not significantly associated with fracture in mutually adjusted models. T, DHT and SHBG were not associated with BMD. T and DHT were both positively associated with LBM in individual models. CONCLUSIONS In older men, DHT was inversely associated with hip fracture risk and SHBG was positively associated with hip fracture risk, while T was not. Future studies should elucidate the mechanisms by which DHT affects bone health.
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- Emily A Rosenberg
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America; Mental Health Service, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America; Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Harding BN, Wiggins KL, Jensen PN, McKnight B, Psaty BM, Heckbert SR, Floyd JS. Opioid, gabapentinoid, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication use and the risks of atrial fibrillation and supraventricular ectopy in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2020; 29:1175-1182. [PMID: 32558036 DOI: 10.1002/pds.5036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Revised: 03/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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PURPOSE Opioids, gabapentinoids, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may have adverse cardiovascular effects. We evaluated whether these medications were associated with incident clinically detected atrial fibrillation (AF) or monitor-detected supraventricular ectopy (SVE), including premature atrial contractions (PACs) and supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). METHODS We used data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a cohort study that enrolled 6814 Americans without clinically detected cardiovascular disease in 2000 to 2002. At the 2016 to 2018 examination, 1557 individuals received ambulatory electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring. Longitudinal analyses investigated time-varying medication exposures at the first five exams (through 2011) in relation to incident clinically detected AF through 2015 using Cox proportional hazards regression models. Cross-sectional analyses investigated medication exposures at 2016 to 2018 examination and the risk of monitor-detected SVE using linear regression models. RESULTS The longitudinal cohort included 6652 participants. During 12.4 years of mean follow-up, 982 participants (14.7%) experienced incident clinically detected AF. Use of opioids, gabapentinoids, and NSAIDs were not associated with incident AF. The cross-sectional analysis included 1435 participants with ECG monitoring. Gabapentinoid use was associated with an 84% greater average frequency of PACs/hour (95% CI, 25%-171%) and a 44% greater average number of runs of SVT/day (95% CI, 3%-100%). No associations were found with use of opioids or NSAIDs in cross-sectional analyses. CONCLUSIONS In this study, gabapentinoid use was associated with SVE. Given the rapid increase in gabapentinoid use, additional studies are needed to clarify whether these medications cause cardiovascular complications.
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- Barbara N Harding
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.,Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.,Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.,Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.,Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Awotoye J, Fashanu OE, Lutsey PL, Zhao D, O'Neal WT, Michos ED. Resting heart rate and incident venous thromboembolism: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Open Heart 2020; 7:e001080. [PMID: 32153786 PMCID: PMC7046973 DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2019-001080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2019] [Revised: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Objective Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Resting heart rate (RHR), which may be modifiable through lifestyle changes, has been shown to be associated with cardiovascular disease risk and with inflammatory markers that have been predictive of VTE incidence. Methods We examined whether RHR is also associated with VTE incidence independent of these risk factors. We studied 6479 Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis participants free from clinical VTE at baseline who had baseline RHR ascertained by 12-lead ECG. VTE events were recorded from hospital records and death certificates using International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 and ICD-10 codes. We categorised RHR as <60, 60-69, 70-79 and ≥80 bpm. We used Cox hazard models to determine the association of incident VTE by RHR. Results Participants had mean (SD) age of 62 (10) years and RHR of 63 (10) bpm. RHR was cross-sectionally correlated with multiple inflammatory and coagulation factors. There were 236 VTE cases after a median follow-up of 14 years. Compared with those with RHR<60 bpm, the HR (95% CI) for incident VTE for RHR≥80 bpm was 2.08 (1.31 to 3.30), after adjusting for demographics, physical activity, smoking, diabetes and use of atrioventricular (AV)-nodal blockers, aspirin and anticoagulants, and remained significant after further adjustment for inflammatory markers (2.05 (1.29 to 3.26)). Results were similar after excluding those taking AV-nodal blocker medications. There was no effect modification of these associations by sex or age. Conclusion Elevated RHR was positively associated with VTE incidence after a median of 14 years; this association was independent of several traditional VTE and inflammatory markers.
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- Josephine Awotoye
- Department of Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Saint Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- The Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- The Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Mukamal KJ, Siscovick DS, de Boer IH, Ix JH, Kizer JR, Djoussé L, Fitzpatrick AL, Tracy RP, Boyko EJ, Kahn SE, Arnold AM. Metabolic Clusters and Outcomes in Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study. J Am Geriatr Soc 2019; 66:289-296. [PMID: 29431855 DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Few studies have the requisite phenotypic information to define metabolic patterns that may inform our understanding of the pathophysiology and consequences of diabetes in older adults. We sought to characterize clusters of older adults on the basis of shared metabolic features. DESIGN Population-based prospective cohort study. SETTING Four U.S. Cardiovascular Health Study field centers. PARTICIPANTS Individuals aged 65 and older taking no glucose-lowering agents (N = 2,231). MEASUREMENTS K-means cluster analysis of 11 metabolic parameters (fasting and postload serum glucose and plasma insulin, fasting C-peptide, body mass index, C-reactive protein (CRP), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), albuminuria, carboxymethyl lysine (an advanced glycation end-product), procollagen III N-terminal propeptide (a fibrotic marker)) and their associations with incident cardiovascular disease, diabetes, disability, and mortality over 8 to 14.5 years of follow-up and with measures of subclinical cardiovascular disease. RESULTS A 6-cluster solution provided robust differentiation into distinct, identifiable clusters. Cluster A (n = 739) had the lowest glucose and insulin and highest eGFR and the lowest rates of all outcomes. Cluster B (n = 419) had high glucose and insulin and intermediate rates of most outcomes. Cluster C (n = 118) had the highest insulin. Cluster D (n = 129) had the highest glucose with much lower insulin. Cluster E (n = 314) had the lowest eGFR and highest albuminuria. Cluster F (n = 512) had the highest CRP. Rates of CVD, mortality, and subclinical atherosclerosis were highest in clusters C, D, and E and were similar to rates in participants with treated diabetes. Incidence of disability was highest in Cluster C. CONCLUSION Clustering according to metabolic parameters identifies distinct phenotypes that are strongly associated with clinical and functional outcomes, even at advanced age.
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- Kenneth J Mukamal
- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.,New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.,Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California.,School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York.,Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.,Boston Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.,Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.,Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.,Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.,Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.,Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Oelsner EC, Balte PP, Grams ME, Cassano PA, Jacobs DR, Barr RG, Burkart KM, Kalhan R, Kronmal R, Loehr LR, O’Connor GT, Schwartz JE, Shlipak M, Tracy RP, Tsai MY, White W, Yende S. Albuminuria, Lung Function Decline, and Risk of Incident Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. The NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2019; 199:321-332. [PMID: 30261735 PMCID: PMC6363973 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201803-0402oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Accepted: 09/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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RATIONALE Chronic lower respiratory diseases (CLRDs), including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, are the fourth leading cause of death. Prior studies suggest that albuminuria, a biomarker of endothelial injury, is increased in patients with COPD. OBJECTIVES To test whether albuminuria was associated with lung function decline and incident CLRDs. METHODS Six U.S. population-based cohorts were harmonized and pooled. Participants with prevalent clinical lung disease were excluded. Albuminuria (urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio) was measured in spot samples. Lung function was assessed by spirometry. Incident CLRD-related hospitalizations and deaths were classified via adjudication and/or administrative criteria. Mixed and proportional hazards models were used to test individual-level associations adjusted for age, height, weight, sex, race/ethnicity, education, birth year, cohort, smoking status, pack-years of smoking, renal function, hypertension, diabetes, and medications. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Among 10,961 participants with preserved lung function, mean age at albuminuria measurement was 60 years, 51% were never-smokers, median albuminuria was 5.6 mg/g, and mean FEV1 decline was 31.5 ml/yr. For each SD increase in log-transformed albuminuria, there was 2.81% greater FEV1 decline (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.86-4.76%; P = 0.0047), 11.02% greater FEV1/FVC decline (95% CI, 4.43-17.62%; P = 0.0011), and 15% increased hazard of incident spirometry-defined moderate-to-severe COPD (95% CI, 2-31%, P = 0.0021). Each SD log-transformed albuminuria increased hazards of incident COPD-related hospitalization/mortality by 26% (95% CI, 18-34%, P < 0.0001) among 14,213 participants followed for events. Asthma events were not significantly associated. Associations persisted in participants without current smoking, diabetes, hypertension, or cardiovascular disease. CONCLUSIONS Albuminuria was associated with greater lung function decline, incident spirometry-defined COPD, and incident COPD-related events in a U.S. population-based sample.
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- Elizabeth C. Oelsner
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Cornell, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Statistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Laboratory for Clinical Biochemistry Research, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Jackson Heart Study, Undergraduate Training and Education Center, Tougaloo College, Jackson, Mississippi; and
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- Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System and
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Oelsner EC, Balte PP, Cassano PA, Couper D, Enright PL, Folsom AR, Hankinson J, Jacobs DR, Kalhan R, Kaplan R, Kronmal R, Lange L, Loehr LR, London SJ, Navas Acien A, Newman AB, O’Connor GT, Schwartz JE, Smith LJ, Yeh F, Zhang Y, Moran AE, Mwasongwe S, White WB, Yende S, Barr RG. Harmonization of Respiratory Data From 9 US Population-Based Cohorts: The NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study. Am J Epidemiol 2018; 187:2265-2278. [PMID: 29982273 PMCID: PMC6211239 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwy139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2017] [Revised: 04/13/2018] [Accepted: 04/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Chronic lower respiratory diseases (CLRDs) are the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. To support investigations into CLRD risk determinants and new approaches to primary prevention, we aimed to harmonize and pool respiratory data from US general population-based cohorts. Data were obtained from prospective cohorts that performed prebronchodilator spirometry and were harmonized following 2005 ATS/ERS standards. In cohorts conducting follow-up for noncardiovascular events, CLRD events were defined as hospitalizations/deaths adjudicated as CLRD-related or assigned relevant administrative codes. Coding and variable names were applied uniformly. The pooled sample included 65,251 adults in 9 cohorts followed-up for CLRD-related mortality over 653,380 person-years during 1983-2016. Average baseline age was 52 years; 56% were female; 49% were never-smokers; and racial/ethnic composition was 44% white, 22% black, 28% Hispanic/Latino, and 5% American Indian. Over 96% had complete data on smoking, clinical CLRD diagnoses, and dyspnea. After excluding invalid spirometry examinations (13%), there were 105,696 valid examinations (median, 2 per participant). Of 29,351 participants followed for CLRD hospitalizations, median follow-up was 14 years; only 5% were lost to follow-up at 10 years. The NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study provides a harmonization standard applied to a large, US population-based sample that may be used to advance epidemiologic research on CLRD.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Body Weights and Measures
- Bronchiectasis/epidemiology
- Bronchiectasis/physiopathology
- Chronic Disease
- Cohort Studies
- Ethnicity/statistics & numerical data
- Female
- Hispanic or Latino/statistics & numerical data
- Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data
- Humans
- Indians, North American/statistics & numerical data
- Inhalation Exposure/statistics & numerical data
- Lung Diseases, Obstructive/epidemiology
- Lung Diseases, Obstructive/ethnology
- Lung Diseases, Obstructive/mortality
- Lung Diseases, Obstructive/physiopathology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.)/organization & administration
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.)/standards
- Phenotype
- Racial Groups/statistics & numerical data
- Respiratory Function Tests
- Risk Factors
- Smoking/epidemiology
- Socioeconomic Factors
- United States/epidemiology
- White People/statistics & numerical data
- Young Adult
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- Elizabeth C Oelsner
- Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York
- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, Ithaca, New York
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- Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Department of Epidemiology, Pitt Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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- Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Jackson Heart Study, Undergraduate Training and Education Center, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York
- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York
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Alam ML, Katz R, Bellovich KA, Bhat ZY, Brosius FC, de Boer IH, Gadegbeku CA, Gipson DS, Hawkins JJ, Himmelfarb J, Kestenbaum BR, Kretzler M, Robinson-Cohen C, Steigerwalt SP, Tuegel C, Bansal N. Soluble ST2 and Galectin-3 and Progression of CKD. Kidney Int Rep 2018; 4:103-111. [PMID: 30596173 PMCID: PMC6308819 DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2018.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Revised: 09/03/2018] [Accepted: 09/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Introduction Cardiac biomarkers soluble ST2 (sST2) and galectin-3 may reflect cardiac inflammation and fibrosis. It is plausible that these mechanisms may also contribute to the progression of kidney disease. We examined associations of sST2 and galectin-3 with kidney function decline in participants with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Methods This was a pooled analysis of 2 longitudinal cohorts of participants with CKD: the Clinical Phenotyping and Resource Biobank (C-PROBE) study and the Seattle Kidney Study (SKS). We measured circulating concentrations of sST2 and galectin-3 at baseline. Our primary outcome was progression to estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <15 ml/min per 1.73 m2 or end-stage renal disease (ESRD). We used competing risk Cox regression models to study the association of sST2 and galectin-3 with CKD progression, adjusting for demographics, kidney function, and comorbidity. Results Among the 841 participants in the pooled cohort, baseline eGFR was 51 ± 27 ml/min per 1.73 m2 and median urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) was 141 (interquartile range = 15−736) mg/g. Participants with higher sST2 and galectin-3 were more likely to be older, to have heart failure and diabetes, and to have lower eGFR. Adjusting for demographics, kidney function, and comorbidity, every doubling of sST2 was not associated with progression to eGFR <15 ml/min per 1.73 m2 or ESRD (adjusted hazard ratio 1.02, 95% confidence interval = 0.76−1.38). Every doubling of galectin-3 was significantly associated with a 38% (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.35, 95% confidence interval = 1.01−1.80) increased risk of progression to eGFR <15 ml/min per 1.73 m2 or ESRD. Conclusion Higher concentrations of the cardiac biomarker galectin-3 may be associated with progression of CKD, highlighting potential novel mechanisms that may contribute to the progression of kidney disease.
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- Mariam L Alam
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Medicine, St. John Hospital Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Talbot D, (Chris) Delaney JA, Sandfort V, Herrington DM, McClelland RL. Importance of the lipid-related pathways in the association between statins, mortality, and cardiovascular disease risk: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2018; 27:365-372. [PMID: 29405501 PMCID: PMC5937846 DOI: 10.1002/pds.4393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2017] [Revised: 12/04/2017] [Accepted: 12/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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PURPOSE Estimating how much of the impact of statins on coronary heart diseases (CHD), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and mortality risk is attributable to their effect on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), and triglycerides. METHODS A semi-parametric g-formula estimator together with data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (a prospective multi-center cohort study) was utilized to perform a mediation analysis. A total of 5280 participants, men and women of various race/ethnicities from multiple sites across the United States, were considered in the current study. RESULTS The adherence adjusted total relative risk reduction (RRR) estimate (95% confidence interval) of statins on CHD was 14% (-16%, 37%), and the indirect component through LDL was 23% (-4%, 58%). For CVD, the total RRR was 23% (2%, 40%), and the indirect component through LDL was 5% (-13%, 25%). The total RRR of mortality was 18% (-1%, 35%), and the indirect component through LDL was -4% (-17%, 12%). The estimated indirect components through HDL and triglycerides were close to zero with narrow confidence intervals for all 3 outcomes. CONCLUSIONS The estimated effect of statins on mortality, CVD, and CHD appeared to be independent of their estimated effect on HDL and triglycerides. Our study provides evidence that the preventive effect of statins on CHD could be attributed in large part to their effect on LDL. Our g-formula estimator is a promising approach to elucidate pathways, even if it is hard to make firm conclusions for the LDL pathway on mortality and CVD.
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- Denis Talbot
- Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université Laval, Québec, Qc, Canada
- Unité santé des populations et pratiques optimales en santé, CHU de Québec – Université Laval research center, Québec, Qc, Canada
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- Heart and Vascular Center of Excellence, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
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Seyerle AA, Sitlani CM, Noordam R, Gogarten SM, Li J, Li X, Evans DS, Sun F, Laaksonen MA, Isaacs A, Kristiansson K, Highland HM, Stewart JD, Harris TB, Trompet S, Bis JC, Peloso GM, Brody JA, Broer L, Busch EL, Duan Q, Stilp AM, O'Donnell CJ, Macfarlane PW, Floyd JS, Kors JA, Lin HJ, Li-Gao R, Sofer T, Méndez-Giráldez R, Cummings SR, Heckbert SR, Hofman A, Ford I, Li Y, Launer LJ, Porthan K, Newton-Cheh C, Napier MD, Kerr KF, Reiner AP, Rice KM, Roach J, Buckley BM, Soliman EZ, de Mutsert R, Sotoodehnia N, Uitterlinden AG, North KE, Lee CR, Gudnason V, Stürmer T, Rosendaal FR, Taylor KD, Wiggins KL, Wilson JG, Chen YD, Kaplan RC, Wilhelmsen K, Cupples LA, Salomaa V, van Duijn C, Jukema JW, Liu Y, Mook-Kanamori DO, Lange LA, Vasan RS, Smith AV, Stricker BH, Laurie CC, Rotter JI, Whitsel EA, Psaty BM, Avery CL. Pharmacogenomics study of thiazide diuretics and QT interval in multi-ethnic populations: the cohorts for heart and aging research in genomic epidemiology. THE PHARMACOGENOMICS JOURNAL 2018; 18:215-226. [PMID: 28719597 PMCID: PMC5773415 DOI: 10.1038/tpj.2017.10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2016] [Revised: 01/14/2017] [Accepted: 03/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Thiazide diuretics, commonly used antihypertensives, may cause QT interval (QT) prolongation, a risk factor for highly fatal and difficult to predict ventricular arrhythmias. We examined whether common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) modified the association between thiazide use and QT or its component parts (QRS interval, JT interval) by performing ancestry-specific, trans-ethnic and cross-phenotype genome-wide analyses of European (66%), African American (15%) and Hispanic (19%) populations (N=78 199), leveraging longitudinal data, incorporating corrected standard errors to account for underestimation of interaction estimate variances and evaluating evidence for pathway enrichment. Although no loci achieved genome-wide significance (P<5 × 10-8), we found suggestive evidence (P<5 × 10-6) for SNPs modifying the thiazide-QT association at 22 loci, including ion transport loci (for example, NELL1, KCNQ3). The biologic plausibility of our suggestive results and simulations demonstrating modest power to detect interaction effects at genome-wide significant levels indicate that larger studies and innovative statistical methods are warranted in future efforts evaluating thiazide-SNP interactions.
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- A A Seyerle
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Health, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- CARIM School of Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), and Department of Biochemistry, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Health, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Cardiology Section, Boston Veterans Administration Healthcare, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Robertson Center for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Epidemiology Cardiology Research Center (EPICARE), Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Department of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Center for Pharmacoepidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- The Renaissance Computing Institute, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
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- Department of Health, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Department of BESC, Epidemiology Section, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Division of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Department of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Inspectorate of Health Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Angiotensin-Converting Inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers and Longitudinal Change in Percent Emphysema on Computed Tomography. The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Lung Study. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2018; 14:649-658. [PMID: 28207279 DOI: 10.1513/annalsats.201604-317oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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RATIONALE Although emphysema on computed tomography (CT) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in patients with and without spirometrically defined chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, no available medications target emphysema outside of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. Transforming growth factor-β and endothelial dysfunction are implicated in emphysema pathogenesis, and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) inhibit transforming growth factor-β, improve endothelial function, and restore airspace architecture in murine models. Evidence in humans is, however, lacking. OBJECTIVES To determine whether angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor and ARB dose is associated with slowed progression of percent emphysema by CT. METHODS The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis researchers recruited participants ages 45-84 years from the general population from 2000 to 2002. Medication use was assessed by medication inventory. Percent emphysema was defined as the percentage of lung regions less than -950 Hounsfield units on CTs. Mixed-effects regression models were used to adjust for confounders. RESULTS Among 4,472 participants, 12% used an ACE inhibitor and 6% used an ARB at baseline. The median percent emphysema was 3.0% at baseline, and the rate of progression was 0.64 percentage points over a median of 9.3 years. Higher doses of ACE or ARB were independently associated with a slower change in percent emphysema (P = 0.03). Over 10 years, in contrast to a predicted mean increase in percent emphysema of 0.66 percentage points in those who did not take ARBs or ACE inhibitors, the predicted mean increase in participants who used maximum doses of ARBs or ACE inhibitors was 0.06 percentage points (P = 0.01). The findings were of greatest magnitude among former smokers (P < 0.001). Indications for ACE inhibitor or ARB drugs (hypertension and diabetes) and other medications for hypertension and diabetes were not associated independently with change in percent emphysema. There was no evidence that ACE inhibitor or ARB dose was associated with decline in lung function. CONCLUSIONS In a large population-based study, ACE inhibitors and ARBs were associated with slowed progression of percent emphysema by chest CT, particularly among former smokers. Randomized clinical trials of ACE and ARB agents are warranted for the prevention and treatment of emphysema.
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Aaron CP, Schwartz JE, Hoffman EA, Angelini E, Austin JHM, Cushman M, Jacobs DR, Kaufman JD, Laine A, Smith LJ, Yang J, Watson KE, Tracy RP, Barr RG. A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Aspirin Use and Progression of Emphysema-like Lung Characteristics on CT Imaging: The MESA Lung Study. Chest 2017; 154:41-50. [PMID: 29246770 DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.11.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2017] [Revised: 10/13/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Platelet activation reduces pulmonary microvascular blood flow and contributes to inflammation; these factors have been implicated in the pathogenesis of COPD and emphysema. We hypothesized that regular use of aspirin, a platelet inhibitor, would be associated with a slower progression of emphysema-like lung characteristics on CT imaging and a slower decline in lung function. METHODS The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) enrolled participants 45 to 84 years of age without clinical cardiovascular disease from 2000 to 2002. The MESA Lung Study assessed the percentage of emphysema-like lung below -950 Hounsfield units ("percent emphysema") on cardiac (2000-2007) and full-lung CT scans (2010-2012). Regular aspirin use was defined as 3 or more days per week. Mixed-effect models adjusted for demographics, anthropometric features, smoking, hypertension, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin II-receptor blocker use, C-reactive protein levels, sphingomyelin levels, and scanner factors. RESULTS At baseline, the 4,257 participants' mean (± SD) age was 61 ± 10 years, 54% were ever smokers, and 22% used aspirin regularly. On average, percent emphysema increased 0.60 percentage points over 10 years (95% CI, 0.35-0.94). Progression of percent emphysema was slower among regular aspirin users compared with patients who did not use aspirin (fully adjusted model: -0.34% /10 years, 95% CI, -0.60 to -0.08; P = .01). Results were similar in ever smokers and with doses of 81 and 300 to 325 mg and were of greater magnitude among those with airflow limitation. No association was found between aspirin use and change in lung function. CONCLUSIONS Regular aspirin use was associated with a more than 50% reduction in the rate of emphysema progression over 10 years. Further study of aspirin and platelets in emphysema may be warranted.
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- Carrie P Aaron
- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY.
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- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Department of Radiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Colchester, VT; Department of Pathology, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Colchester, VT
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Pathology, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Colchester, VT
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- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY; Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
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Aaron CP, Hoffman EA, Lima JAC, Kawut SM, Bertoni AG, Vogel-Claussen J, Habibi M, Hueper K, Jacobs DR, Kalhan R, Michos ED, Post WS, Prince MR, Smith BM, Ambale-Venkatesh B, Liu CY, Zemrak F, Watson KE, Budoff M, Bluemke DA, Barr RG. Pulmonary vascular volume, impaired left ventricular filling and dyspnea: The MESA Lung Study. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0176180. [PMID: 28426728 PMCID: PMC5398710 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Evaluation of impaired left ventricular (LV) filling has focused on intrinsic causes of LV dysfunction; however, pulmonary vascular changes may contribute to reduced LV filling and dyspnea. We hypothesized that lower total pulmonary vascular volume (TPVV) on computed tomography (CT) would be associated with dyspnea and decrements in LV end-diastolic volume, particularly among ever-smokers. METHODS The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis recruited adults without clinical cardiovascular disease in 2000-02. In 2010-12, TPVV was ascertained as the volume of arteries and veins in the lungs detectable on non-contrast chest CT (vessels ≥1 mm diameter). Cardiac measures were assessed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Dyspnea was self-reported. RESULTS Of 2303 participants, 53% had ever smoked cigarettes. Among ever-smokers, a lower TPVV was associated with a lower LV end-diastolic volume (6.9 mL per SD TPVV), stroke volume, and cardiac output and with dyspnea (all P-values <0.001). Findings were similar among those without lung disease and those with 0-10 pack-years but were mostly non-significant among never-smokers. TPVV was associated smaller left atrial volume but not with LV ejection fraction or MRI measures of impaired LV relaxation. In a second sample of ever-smokers, a lower pulmonary microvascular blood volume on contrast-enhanced MRI was also associated with a lower LV end-diastolic volume (P-value = 0.008). CONCLUSION Reductions in pulmonary vascular volume were associated with lower LV filling and dyspnea among ever-smokers, including those without lung disease, suggesting that smoking-related pulmonary vascular changes may contribute to symptoms and impair cardiac filling and function without evidence of impaired LV relaxation.
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- Carrie P. Aaron
- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
- Department of Radiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
- Department of Radiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America
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- Asthma and COPD Program, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
- Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health/Clinical Center; Bethesda, MD, United States of America
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- Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health/Clinical Center; Bethesda, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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- Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health/Clinical Center; Bethesda, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
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Nair V, Robinson-Cohen C, Smith MR, Bellovich KA, Bhat ZY, Bobadilla M, Brosius F, de Boer IH, Essioux L, Formentini I, Gadegbeku CA, Gipson D, Hawkins J, Himmelfarb J, Kestenbaum B, Kretzler M, Magnone MC, Perumal K, Steigerwalt S, Ju W, Bansal N. Growth Differentiation Factor-15 and Risk of CKD Progression. J Am Soc Nephrol 2017; 28:2233-2240. [PMID: 28159780 DOI: 10.1681/asn.2016080919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2016] [Accepted: 01/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Growth differentiation factor-15 (GDF-15) is a member of the TGF-β cytokine superfamily that is widely expressed and may be induced in response to tissue injury. Elevations in GDF-15 may identify a novel pathway involved in loss of kidney function among patients with CKD. Among participants in the Clinical Phenotyping and Resource Biobank (C-PROBE) study and the Seattle Kidney Study (SKS), we tested whether kidney tissue expression of GDF15 mRNA correlates with circulating levels of GDF-15 and whether elevations in circulating GDF-15 are associated with decline in kidney function. In matching samples of 24 patients with CKD from the C-PROBE study, circulating GDF-15 levels significantly correlated with intrarenal GDF15 transcript levels (r=0.54, P=0.01). Among the 224 C-PROBE and 297 SKS participants, 72 (32.1%) and 94 (32.0%) patients, respectively, reached a composite end point of 30% decline in eGFR or progression to ESRD over a median of 1.8 and 2.0 years of follow up, respectively. In multivariable models, after adjusting for potential confounders, every doubling of GDF-15 level associated with a 72% higher (95% confidence interval, 1.21 to 4.45; P=0.003) and 65% higher (95% confidence interval, 1.08 to 2.50; P=0.02) risk of progression of kidney disease in C-PROBE and SKS participants, respectively. These results show that circulating GDF-15 levels strongly correlated with intrarenal expression of GDF15 and significantly associated with increased risk of CKD progression in two independent cohorts. Circulating GDF-15 may be a marker for intrarenal GDF15-related signaling pathways associated with CKD and CKD progression.
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- Viji Nair
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology
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- Kidney Research Institute, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Nephrology, St. Clair Nephrology Research, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology
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- Kidney Research Institute, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Discovery Biology-Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Discovery Biology-Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pediatrics, and
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- Kidney Research Institute, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Kidney Research Institute, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology.,Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Discovery Biology-Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, .,Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Kidney Research Institute, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington;
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Joyce KE, Biggs ML, Djoussé L, Ix JH, Kizer JR, Siscovick DS, Shores MM, Matsumoto AM, Mukamal KJ. Testosterone, Dihydrotestosterone, Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin, and Incident Diabetes Among Older Men: The Cardiovascular Health Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2017; 102:33-39. [PMID: 27732332 PMCID: PMC5413109 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2016-2623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2016] [Accepted: 07/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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CONTEXT Although sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) and testosterone (T) have been inversely associated with risk of diabetes, few studies have examined dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a more potent androgen than T, in older adults, whose glycemic pathophysiology differs from younger adults. OBJECTIVE To determine the associations of SHBG, T, and DHT with insulin resistance and incident diabetes in older adult men. DESIGN In a prospective cohort study, we evaluated baseline levels of SHBG, T, and DHT using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry among 852 men free of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the Cardiovascular Health Study in 1994. MAIN OUTCOME Insulin resistance estimated by Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) and insulin sensitivity estimated by the Gutt index in 1996, and incident diabetes (n = 112) ascertained over a mean follow-up of 9.8 years. RESULTS In linear regression models adjusted for demographics, alcohol consumption, current smoking, body mass index, and other androgens, SHBG [HOMA-IR 0.30 units lower per doubling; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.08 to 0.52; P = 0.01] and total DHT (HOMA-IR 0.18 units lower per doubling; 95% CI, 0.06 to 0.30; P = 0.01), but not free T (P = 0.33), were inversely associated with insulin resistance. In corresponding Cox proportional hazards models, total DHT was again inversely associated with risk of diabetes (adjusted hazard ratio per doubling, 0.69; 95% CI, 0.52 to 0.92; P = 0.01), but SHBG (hazard ratio, 1.09; 95% CI, 0.74 to 1.59; P = 0.66) and free T (hazard ratio, 1.15; 95% CI, 0.92 to 1.43; P = 0.23) were not. CONCLUSIONS Among older men, higher levels of DHT were inversely associated with insulin resistance and risk of diabetes over the ensuing 10 years, whereas levels of T were not. Future studies are still needed to clarify the role of SHBG in risk of diabetes in this population.
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- Katherine E Joyce
- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215
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- Division on Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Division of Nephrology-Hypertension, University of California San Diego and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California 92093
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- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and
- VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington 98108
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- Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98115
- Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center
- VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington 98108
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215
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Anderson JJB, Kruszka B, Delaney JAC, He K, Burke GL, Alonso A, Bild DE, Budoff M, Michos ED. Calcium Intake From Diet and Supplements and the Risk of Coronary Artery Calcification and its Progression Among Older Adults: 10-Year Follow-up of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). J Am Heart Assoc 2016; 5:JAHA.116.003815. [PMID: 27729333 PMCID: PMC5121484 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.116.003815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND Recent randomized data suggest that calcium supplements may be associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. Using a longitudinal cohort study, we assessed the association between calcium intake, from both foods and supplements, and atherosclerosis, as measured by coronary artery calcification (CAC). METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 5448 adults free of clinically diagnosed CVD (52% female; aged 45-84 years) from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Baseline total calcium intake was assessed from diet (using a food frequency questionnaire) and calcium supplements (by a medication inventory) and categorized into quintiles. Baseline CAC was measured by computed tomography, and CAC measurements were repeated in 2742 participants ≈10 years later. At baseline, mean calcium intakes across quintiles were 313.3, 540.3, 783.0, 1168.9, and 2157.4 mg/day. Women had higher calcium intakes than men. After adjustment for potential confounders, among 1567 participants without baseline CAC, the relative risk (RR) of developing incident CAC over 10 years, by quintile 1 to 5 of calcium intake, were 1 (reference), 0.95 (0.79-1.14), 1.02 (0.85-1.23), 0.86 (0.69-1.05), and 0.73 (0.57-0.93). After accounting for total calcium intake, calcium supplement use was associated with increased risk for incident CAC (RR=1.22 [1.07-1.39]). No relation was found between baseline calcium intake and 10-year changes in log-transformed CAC among those participants with baseline CAC >0. CONCLUSIONS High total calcium intake was associated with a decreased risk of incident atherosclerosis over long-term follow-up, particularly if achieved without supplement use. However, calcium supplement use may increase the risk for incident CAC.
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- John J B Anderson
- Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Washington, DC
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- Division of Cardiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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Leary PJ, Tedford RJ, Bluemke DA, Bristow MR, Heckbert SR, Kawut SM, Krieger EV, Lima JA, Masri CS, Ralph DD, Shea S, Weiss NS, Kronmal RA. Histamine H2 Receptor Antagonists, Left Ventricular Morphology, and Heart Failure Risk: The MESA Study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2016; 67:1544-1552. [PMID: 27150686 PMCID: PMC4860615 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.01.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2015] [Revised: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 01/21/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Myocardial H2 receptor activation may promote cardiac fibrosis and apoptosis in pre-clinical models and histamine H2 receptor antagonist (H2RA) use may improve symptoms in participants with heart failure (HF); however, relationships between H2RA use, incident HF, and longitudinal change in left ventricular (LV) morphology are not known. OBJECTIVES This study sought to determine whether H2RA use is associated with incident HF and change in LV morphology over time. METHODS We included 6,378 men and women from MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis), a multicenter prospective observational cohort of participants without cardiovascular disease at baseline. Cox proportional hazards were used to estimate the association between H2RA use and incident HF in adjusted models. In participants with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, associations between H2RA use, baseline LV morphology (n = 4,691), and longitudinal change in the LV (n = 2,806) were estimated using linear regression. RESULTS H2RAs were used by 313 participants but not by the other 6,065 individuals. During a median follow-up of 11.2 years, 236 participants developed HF. In adjusted models, baseline H2RA use relative to nonuse was associated with 62% lower risk for incident HF (p = 0.02). H2RA use was associated with preserved stroke volume, LV end-diastolic volume, and mass/volume ratio as measured by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging over approximately 10 years (all p < 0.05). There were no associations between H2RA use and LV mass or ejection fraction. CONCLUSIONS H2RA use was associated with reduced risk for incident HF. Left heart morphology over time suggests less age-related change in H2RA users. These associations suggest histamine signaling may be important in the pathogenesis of HF. (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis [MESA]; NCT00005487).
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- Peter J Leary
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
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- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York City, New York
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Bis JC, Sitlani C, Irvin R, Avery CL, Smith AV, Sun F, Evans DS, Musani SK, Li X, Trompet S, Krijthe BP, Harris TB, Quibrera PM, Brody JA, Demissie S, Davis BR, Wiggins KL, Tranah GJ, Lange LA, Sotoodehnia N, Stott DJ, Franco OH, Launer LJ, Stürmer T, Taylor KD, Cupples LA, Eckfeldt JH, Smith NL, Liu Y, Wilson JG, Heckbert SR, Buckley BM, Ikram MA, Boerwinkle E, Chen YDI, de Craen AJM, Uitterlinden AG, Rotter JI, Ford I, Hofman A, Sattar N, Slagboom PE, Westendorp RGJ, Gudnason V, Vasan RS, Lumley T, Cummings SR, Taylor HA, Post W, Jukema JW, Stricker BH, Whitsel EA, Psaty BM, Arnett D. Drug-Gene Interactions of Antihypertensive Medications and Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease: A Pharmacogenomics Study from the CHARGE Consortium. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0140496. [PMID: 26516778 PMCID: PMC4627813 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2015] [Accepted: 09/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Hypertension is a major risk factor for a spectrum of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including myocardial infarction, sudden death, and stroke. In the US, over 65 million people have high blood pressure and a large proportion of these individuals are prescribed antihypertensive medications. Although large long-term clinical trials conducted in the last several decades have identified a number of effective antihypertensive treatments that reduce the risk of future clinical complications, responses to therapy and protection from cardiovascular events vary among individuals. METHODS Using a genome-wide association study among 21,267 participants with pharmaceutically treated hypertension, we explored the hypothesis that genetic variants might influence or modify the effectiveness of common antihypertensive therapies on the risk of major cardiovascular outcomes. The classes of drug treatments included angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, and diuretics. In the setting of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium, each study performed array-based genome-wide genotyping, imputed to HapMap Phase II reference panels, and used additive genetic models in proportional hazards or logistic regression models to evaluate drug-gene interactions for each of four therapeutic drug classes. We used meta-analysis to combine study-specific interaction estimates for approximately 2 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a discovery analysis among 15,375 European Ancestry participants (3,527 CVD cases) with targeted follow-up in a case-only study of 1,751 European Ancestry GenHAT participants as well as among 4,141 African-Americans (1,267 CVD cases). RESULTS Although drug-SNP interactions were biologically plausible, exposures and outcomes were well measured, and power was sufficient to detect modest interactions, we did not identify any statistically significant interactions from the four antihypertensive therapy meta-analyses (Pinteraction > 5.0×10-8). Similarly, findings were null for meta-analyses restricted to 66 SNPs with significant main effects on coronary artery disease or blood pressure from large published genome-wide association studies (Pinteraction ≥ 0.01). Our results suggest that there are no major pharmacogenetic influences of common SNPs on the relationship between blood pressure medications and the risk of incident CVD.
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- Joshua C. Bis
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Cardiology Division, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- University of North Carolina—GSK Center of Excellence in Pharmacoepidemiology, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Group Health Research Institute, Group Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Group Health Research Institute, Group Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
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- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
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- Robertson Center for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Inspectorate for Health Care, the Hague, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Group Health Research Institute, Group Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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Bhaskara S, Whitsel EA, Ballantyne CM, Folsom AR. Validity of self-report of lipid medication use: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Atherosclerosis 2015; 242:625-9. [PMID: 26342332 PMCID: PMC4575898 DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2015.08.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2015] [Revised: 07/20/2015] [Accepted: 08/18/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the validity of self-reported lipid medication use in an epidemiological study. METHODS We studied medication self-reports compared with inventoried lipid medication containers at the fifth visit of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study in 2011-2013 (n = 6370). To assess the validity of self-reports, we computed sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values. We used multiple logistic regression to determine whether validity varied by participant characteristics. Comparisons were made with visit 4 (n = 11,531), to determine if there was a change in validity as the pattern and types of lipid medication used changed over time. RESULTS The prevalence of lipid medication use, according to medication containers was higher at visit 5 (56%) than visit 4 (14.3%). Statins were increasingly used. The percentage of participants reporting use/non-use accurately was 91.8% at visit 5, lower than visit 4 (97.3%). The unadjusted kappa coefficient of agreement was 0.83 (95% CI - 0.82 to 0.85) at visit 5 and 0.89 (95% CI - 0.88 to 0.90) at visit 4. Agreement was higher, compared with their counterparts, for women, younger and more educated participants, and those using fewer total medications. CONCLUSION In this population sample, self-reported lipid medication use was highly accurate and therefore likely would be for similar epidemiological studies or clinical settings collecting this information.
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- Sahiti Bhaskara
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454-1015, USA.
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- Cardiovascular Disease Program, Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bank of America Center, Suite 301-B, 137 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 6565 Fannin Street, Suite A656, MS A601, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454-1015, USA.
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H2 receptor antagonists and right ventricular morphology: the MESA right ventricle study. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2015; 11:1379-86. [PMID: 25295642 DOI: 10.1513/annalsats.201407-344oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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RATIONALE H2 receptor antagonist (H2RA) use is common and may act directly on the heart through myocardial H2 receptors or indirectly through changes in pulmonary vascular resistance. OBJECTIVES To determine the relationship between histamine H2RA use and right ventricular (RV) morphology. METHODS We studied 4,122 participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis without clinical cardiovascular disease who had magnetic resonance imaging assessment of RV morphology and ascertainment of medication use. Multivariable linear regression estimated cross-sectional associations between H2RA use and RV morphology after adjusting for demographics, anthropometrics, smoking status, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension. Further adjustments for co-medication use, left ventricular parameters, lung structure and function, renal function, or inflammatory markers were considered in separate models. Analyses in a subcohort restricted to H2RA or proton pump inhibitor users accounted for confounding by the indication of gastroesophageal reflux disease. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS H2RA use was associated with lower RV mass (-0.7 g; 95% confidence interval, -1.2 to -0.2 g; P = 0.004) and smaller RV end-diastolic volume (-4.2 ml; 95% confidence interval, -7.2 to -1.2 ml; P = 0.006). This relationship was unchanged with adjustment for co-medication use, lung structure and function, renal function, and inflammation. The relationship with RV mass was independent of left ventricular mass. Results were similar in the smaller cohort restricted to proton pump inhibitor and H2RA users. CONCLUSIONS H2RA use was associated with lower RV mass and smaller RV end-diastolic volume. Additional study of histamine and H2 receptors in cardiopulmonary diseases affecting the RV may have direct clinical relevance.
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De las Cuevas C, Peñate W. Psychometric properties of the eight-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) in a psychiatric outpatient setting. Int J Clin Health Psychol 2014; 15:121-129. [PMID: 30487829 PMCID: PMC6224788 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2014.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2014] [Accepted: 11/24/2014] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The eight-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) is a structured self-report measure of medication-taking behavior that has been widely used in various cultures. In Spain, no studies to date have analyzed the psychometric properties of the scale in psychiatric care. The purpose of the present instrumental study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the MMAS-8 in a sample of 967 consecutive psychiatric outpatients. The scale showed adequate construct validity and results pointed to a one-factor solution in which all the items contributed to the final index of adherence. The MMAS-8 exhibited significant correlation coefficients with the 10-item Drug Attitude Inventory, Form C of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scale, and the Hong Psychological Reactance Scale. Moreover, the MMAS-8 was able to differentiate between various mental disorder diagnosis groups. The findings of this study suggest that the Spanish version of the MMAS-8 is a reliable and valid measure of medication adherence that can be used in a psychiatric outpatient setting.
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- Carlos De las Cuevas
- Corresponding author. Department of Internal Medicine, Dermatology and Psychiatry School of Medicine, University of La Laguna, 38071 San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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Oelsner EC, Hoffman EA, Folsom AR, Carr JJ, Enright PL, Kawut SM, Kronmal R, Lederer D, Lima JAC, Lovasi GS, Shea S, Barr RG. Association between emphysema-like lung on cardiac computed tomography and mortality in persons without airflow obstruction: a cohort study. Ann Intern Med 2014; 161:863-73. [PMID: 25506855 PMCID: PMC4347817 DOI: 10.7326/m13-2570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Low lung function is known to predict mortality in the general population, but the prognostic significance of emphysema on computed tomography (CT) in persons without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is uncertain. OBJECTIVE To determine whether greater emphysema-like lung on CT is associated with all-cause mortality among persons in the general population without airflow obstruction or COPD. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Population-based, multiethnic sample from 6 U.S. communities. PARTICIPANTS 2965 participants aged 45 to 84 years without airflow obstruction on spirometry. MEASUREMENTS Emphysema-like lung was defined as the number of lung voxels with attenuation less than -950 Hounsfield units on cardiac CT and was adjusted for the number of total imaged lung voxels. RESULTS Among 2965 participants, 50.9% of whom had never smoked, there were 186 deaths over a median of 6.2 years. Greater emphysema-like lung was independently associated with increased mortality (adjusted hazard ratio per one-half interquartile range, 1.14 [95% CI, 1.04 to 1.24]; P=0.004) after adjustment for potential confounders, including cardiovascular risk factors and FEV1. Generalized additive models supported a linear association between emphysema-like lung and mortality without evidence for a threshold. The association was of greatest magnitude among smokers, although multiplicative interaction terms did not support effect modification by smoking status. LIMITATIONS Cardiac CT scans did not include lung apices. The number of deaths was limited among subgroup analyses. CONCLUSION Emphysema-like lung on CT was associated with all-cause mortality among persons without airflow obstruction or COPD in a general population sample, particularly among smokers. Recognition of the independent prognostic significance of emphysema on CT among patients without COPD on spirometry is warranted. PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
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Aaron CP, Schwartz JE, Bielinski SJ, Hoffman EA, Austin JHM, Oelsner EC, Donohue KM, Kalhan R, Berardi C, Kaufman JD, Jacobs DR, Tracy RP, Barr RG. Intercellular adhesion molecule 1 and progression of percent emphysema: the MESA Lung Study. Respir Med 2014; 109:255-64. [PMID: 25457724 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2014.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2014] [Revised: 10/07/2014] [Accepted: 10/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Endothelial intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM) 1 binds neutrophils and facilitates their transmigration into the lung; E-selectin facilitates leukocyte rolling. As neutrophils contribute to tissue destruction in emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, we hypothesized that soluble ICAM-1 (sICAM-1) and E-selectin (sE-selectin) would be associated with longitudinal progression of emphysema and lung function decline. METHODS The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) enrolled participants 45-84 years old without clinical cardiovascular disease in 2000-02. The MESA Lung Study assessed percent emphysema (<-950 Hounsfield units) on cardiac (2000-07) and full-lung CT scans (2010-12), and spirometry was assessed twice over five years. sICAM-1 and sE-selectin were measured at baseline. Mixed-effect models adjusted for demographics, anthropometry, smoking, C-reactive protein, sphingomyelin and scanner factors. RESULTS Among 1865 MESA Lung participants with measurement of sICAM-1 and percent emphysema the mean log-sICAM-1 was 5.5 ± 0.3 ng/mL and percent emphysema increased 0.73 percentage points (95% CI: 0.34, 1.12; P < 0.001) over ten years. A one SD increase in sICAM-1 was associated with an accelerated increase in percent emphysema of 0.23 percentage points over ten years (95% CI: 0.06, 0.39; P = 0.007). No significant association was found for sE-selectin, or between any adhesion molecule and lung function. CONCLUSIONS Higher levels of sICAM-1 were independently associated with progression of percent emphysema in a general population sample.
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- Carrie P Aaron
- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Colchester, VT, USA
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- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
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Robinson-Cohen C, Hall YN, Katz R, Rivara MB, de Boer IH, Kestenbaum BR, Himmelfarb J. Self-rated health and adverse events in CKD. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2014; 9:2044-51. [PMID: 25301857 DOI: 10.2215/cjn.03140314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Little is known about the utility of self-rated general health assessments in persons with moderate-to-severe CKD. This study examined the ability of a single self-rated health measure to predict all-cause mortality and kidney disease progression in a cohort of 443 patients with stages 3-4 CKD, recruited between 2005 and 2011, and followed until the end of 2012. The performance of models incorporating self-rated health measures was compared with previously published predictive models and more complex models comprising a multibiomarker panel. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Participants were asked "In general, would you say your health is excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor?" Outcomes examined were time to all-cause mortality, kidney disease progression (initiation of RRT or 30% loss of eGFR), and a composite of these events. Model performances were compared using a nonparametric area under the curve (AUC) analysis. RESULTS Over a median follow-up of 3.3 years, 118 (27%) participants died and 138 (31%) had progression of kidney disease. Fair-to-poor self-rated health status was associated with significantly greater risks of mortality (fully adjusted hazard ratio [HR] for relative to good-to-excellent self-rated health, 2.76; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 1.28 to 5.89), kidney disease progression (HR, 1.94; 95% CI, 1.49 to 2.56), and the combined end point (HR, 2.21; 95% CI, 1.66 to 2.96). For 3-year mortality prediction, the self-rated health model (AUC, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.76 to 0.85) had significantly higher AUCs than the base model (AUC, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.66 to 0.76) and the multibiomarker panel model (AUC, 0.74; 95% CI, 0.68 to 0.80) (P=0.03 and P=0.04, respectively). CONCLUSIONS A single, easily obtained measure of self-rated health helps identify patients with CKD at high risk of mortality and kidney disease progression. Routine evaluation of self-rated health may help target individuals who might benefit from more intensive monitoring strategies.
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- Kidney Research Institute, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Kidney Research Institute, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Kidney Research Institute, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Kidney Research Institute, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Kidney Research Institute, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Avery CL, Sitlani CM, Arking DE, Arnett DK, Bis JC, Boerwinkle E, Buckley BM, Ida Chen YD, de Craen AJM, Eijgelsheim M, Enquobahrie D, Evans DS, Ford I, Garcia ME, Gudnason V, Harris TB, Heckbert SR, Hochner H, Hofman A, Hsueh WC, Isaacs A, Jukema JW, Knekt P, Kors JA, Krijthe BP, Kristiansson K, Laaksonen M, Liu Y, Li X, Macfarlane PW, Newton-Cheh C, Nieminen MS, Oostra BA, Peloso GM, Porthan K, Rice K, Rivadeneira FF, Rotter JI, Salomaa V, Sattar N, Siscovick DS, Slagboom PE, Smith AV, Sotoodehnia N, Stott DJ, Stricker BH, Stürmer T, Trompet S, Uitterlinden AG, van Duijn C, Westendorp RGJ, Witteman JC, Whitsel EA, Psaty BM. Drug-gene interactions and the search for missing heritability: a cross-sectional pharmacogenomics study of the QT interval. THE PHARMACOGENOMICS JOURNAL 2014; 14:6-13. [PMID: 23459443 PMCID: PMC3766418 DOI: 10.1038/tpj.2013.4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2012] [Revised: 12/07/2012] [Accepted: 01/03/2013] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Variability in response to drug use is common and heritable, suggesting that genome-wide pharmacogenomics studies may help explain the 'missing heritability' of complex traits. Here, we describe four independent analyses in 33 781 participants of European ancestry from 10 cohorts that were designed to identify genetic variants modifying the effects of drugs on QT interval duration (QT). Each analysis cross-sectionally examined four therapeutic classes: thiazide diuretics (prevalence of use=13.0%), tri/tetracyclic antidepressants (2.6%), sulfonylurea hypoglycemic agents (2.9%) and QT-prolonging drugs as classified by the University of Arizona Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (4.4%). Drug-gene interactions were estimated using covariable-adjusted linear regression and results were combined with fixed-effects meta-analysis. Although drug-single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) interactions were biologically plausible and variables were well-measured, findings from the four cross-sectional meta-analyses were null (Pinteraction>5.0 × 10(-8)). Simulations suggested that additional efforts, including longitudinal modeling to increase statistical power, are likely needed to identify potentially important pharmacogenomic effects.
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- C L Avery
- Department of Epidemiology, Bank of America Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine and Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology and Center for Human Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University College Cork, Cork, UK
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- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- 1] Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA [2] Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- 1] Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [2] Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- 1] Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [2] Centre for Medical Systems Biology, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- 1] Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [2] Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- 1] Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [2] Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Leiden, The Netherlands
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- THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- 1] Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA [2] Center for Human Genetic Research, Cardiovascular Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA [3] Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- 1] Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [2] Centre for Medical Systems Biology, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- 1] National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA [2] Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- 1] Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [2] Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Leiden, The Netherlands [3] Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Glasgow, UK
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- 1] Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA [2] Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
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- Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Academic Section of Geriatric Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- 1] Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [2] Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Leiden, The Netherlands [3] Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [4] Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Bank of America Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- 1] Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [2] Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Leiden, The Netherlands [3] Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- 1] Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [2] Centre for Medical Systems Biology, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- 1] Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [2] Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Leiden, The Netherlands
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- 1] Department of Epidemiology, Bank of America Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA [2] Departments of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- 1] Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA [2] Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA [3] Departments of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA [4] Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA [5] Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA, USA
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Robinson-Cohen C, Littman AJ, Duncan GE, Weiss NS, Sachs MC, Ruzinski J, Kundzins J, Rock D, de Boer IH, Ikizler TA, Himmelfarb J, Kestenbaum BR. Physical activity and change in estimated GFR among persons with CKD. J Am Soc Nephrol 2013; 25:399-406. [PMID: 24335971 DOI: 10.1681/asn.2013040392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Physical activity may counteract metabolic disturbances that promote the progression of CKD. To address this concept, we performed a longitudinal cohort study of 256 participants in the Seattle Kidney Study, a clinic-based study of CKD. Participants with an estimated GFR (eGFR) of 15-59 ml/min per 1.73 m(2) at baseline were eligible for the study. Physical activity was quantified using the Four-Week Physical Activity History Questionnaire. We used generalized estimating equations to test associations of physical activity with change in eGFR determined by longitudinal measurements of serum cystatin C. Mean baseline eGFR was 42 ml/min per 1.73 m(2). During a median 3.7 years of follow-up, the mean change in eGFRcystatin C was -7.6% per year (interquartile range, -16.8%, 4.9% per year). Participants who reported >150 minutes of physical activity per week had the lowest rate of eGFRcystatin C loss (mean -6.2% per year compared with -9.6% per year among inactive participants). In adjusted analyses, each 60-minute increment in weekly physical activity duration associated with a 0.5% slower decline per year in eGFR (95% confidence interval, 0.02 to 0.98; P=0.04). Results were similar in sensitivity analyses restricted to participants without cardiovascular disease or diabetes, or to participants with moderate/high physical function. After adjustment for eGFR at the time of questionnaire completion, physical activity did not associate with the incidence of ESRD (n=34 events). In summary, higher physical activity levels associated with slower rates of eGFR loss in persons with established CKD.
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Richardson K, Kenny RA, Peklar J, Bennett K. Agreement between patient interview data on prescription medication use and pharmacy records in those aged older than 50 years varied by therapeutic group and reporting of indicated health conditions. J Clin Epidemiol 2013; 66:1308-16. [PMID: 23968693 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2012] [Revised: 02/11/2013] [Accepted: 02/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To estimate the agreement between interview-ascertained medication use and pharmacy records among the population aged older than 50 years, and to identify patient-level predictors of discordance. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing is representative of community-dwelling adults aged 50 years and older in Ireland. Interview-ascertained medication data from 2,621 participants were linked to pharmacy dispensing records. The kappa statistics measured the agreement between the two sources for 19 therapeutic classes. Logistic regression assessed the effect of patient-level characteristics on survey under- and overreporting of regularly dispensed medications. RESULTS Agreement was good or very good (κ=0.64-0.86) for 15 medication classes, and moderate or poor for antiinflammatory and antirheumatic products (κ=0.54), analgesics (κ=0.50), psycholeptics (κ=0.59), and ophthalmologicals (κ=0.37). Not reporting an indicated health condition, less frequent dispensing, older age, and more medications regularly dispensed were associated with survey underreporting, but results varied by therapeutic class. Memory and cognition were not associated with discordance. CONCLUSION Ascertaining medication use via patient interview seems a valid method for most medication classes and also captures nonprescription and supplement use. However, medications applied topically and as needed may be underreported. The source of medication data should be carefully considered when performing pharmacoepidemiological studies.
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- The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
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Delaney JA, Lehmann N, Jöckel KH, Elmariah S, Psaty BM, Mahabadi AA, Budoff M, Kronmal RA, Nasir K, O'Brien KD, Möhlenkamp S, Moebus S, Dragano N, Winterstein AG, Erbel R, Kälsch H. Associations between aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and aortic valve or coronary artery calcification: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study. Atherosclerosis 2013; 229:310-6. [PMID: 23880181 PMCID: PMC3724227 DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2012] [Revised: 05/01/2013] [Accepted: 05/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND The association between non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and the incidence of valvular and arterial calcification is not well established despite known associations between these drugs and cardiovascular events. OBJECTIVE To compare the association between the baseline use of aspirin with other NSAID class medications with the incidence and prevalence of aortic valve calcification (AVC) and coronary artery calcification (CAC). METHODS The relationship of NSAID use to AVC and CAC detected by computed tomography was assessed in 6814 participants within the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) using regression modeling. Results were adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, study site, anti-hypertensive medication use, education, income, health insurance status, diabetes, smoking, exercise, body mass index, blood pressure, serum lipids, inflammatory markers, fasting glucose, statin medication use, and a simple diet score. Medication use was assessed by medication inventory at baseline which includes the use of non-prescription NSAIDs. MESA collects information on both incident and prevalent calcification. The 4814 participants of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall (HNR) Study, a German prospective cohort study with similar measures of calcification, were included in this analysis to enable replication. RESULTS Mean age of the MESA participants was 62 years (51% female). After adjustment for possible confounding factors, a possible association between aspirin use and incident AVC (Relative Risk(RR): 1.60; 95%Confidence Interval (CI): 1.19-2.15) did not replicate in the HNR cohort (RR: 1.06; 95%CI: 0.87-1.28). There was no significant association between aspirin use and incident CAC in the MESA cohort (RR 1.08; 95%CI: 0.91-1.29) or in the HNR cohort (RR 1.24; 95%CI: 0.87-1.77). Non-aspirin NSAID use was not associated with either AVC or CAC in either cohort. There were no associations between regular cardiac dose aspirin and incident calcification in either cohort. CONCLUSION Baseline NSAID use, as assessed by medication inventory, appears to have no protective effect regarding the onset of calcification in either coronary arteries or aortic valves.
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Rauma PH, Koivumaa-Honkanen H, Kröger H, Tuppurainen MT, Kauhanen J, Honkanen RJ. The relationship between self-reported and registry-based data on use of psychoactive medications in postmenopausal women. BMC Psychiatry 2013; 13:180. [PMID: 23819474 PMCID: PMC3702526 DOI: 10.1186/1471-244x-13-180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2013] [Accepted: 06/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Self-report is commonly used as a source of information on the use of medicine. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-reported and register-based information on the use of psychoactive medication, especially in respect to antidepressants, and reasons of non-reporting. METHODS Study subjects (n = 11,031) originated from a population-based cohort of postmenopausal women born in 1932-41 from Eastern Finland who responded to a postal enquiry in 1999. Self-reported currently used prescribed medications were compared to the National prescription register data. Diuretics served as a reference for psychoactive medications. RESULTS Only 44% out of 1,638 women reported their use of psychoactive medication when compared to the prescription register within a 4-month time window preceding their response to enquiry. Altogether, 55% out of 777 women reported their use of antidepressants and 29% out of 861 reported their use of other psychoactive medications. In comparison 83% reported their use of diuretics. After excluding the occasional use, an increase in sensitivity by approximately 10 percentage points was seen regardless of the group of psychoactive medication. High use and history of work disability pension due to psychiatric cause were associated with a much higher likelihood of reporting psychoactive medication use (for antidepressants 70% and 81%, respectively). CONCLUSIONS For research purposes, self-reported current use of psychoactive medication seems to be a sufficient indicator for regular use of antidepressants or in respect of use of any psychoactive medication, for subjects with severe psychiatric disease.
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- Päivi H Rauma
- Social Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland (UEF), P,O, Box 1627, 70211, Kuopio, Finland.
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Psychiatry, UEF, Kuopio, Finland,Institute of Clinical Medicine, Psychiatry, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland,Departments of Psychiatry; Kuopio University Hospital (KUH), Kuopio; South-Savonia Hospital District, Mikkeli; North Karelia Central Hospital, Joensuu; SOSTERI, Savonlinna; SOTE, Iisalmi; Lapland Hospital District, Rovaniemi, Finland
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- Bone and Cartilage Research Unit, Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, UEF, Kuopio, Finland,Department of Orthopaedics, Traumatology and Hand Surgery, KUH, Kuopio, Finland
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- Bone and Cartilage Research Unit, Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, UEF, Kuopio, Finland,Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, KUH, Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, UEF, Kuopio, Finland
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- Bone and Cartilage Research Unit, Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, UEF, Kuopio, Finland,Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, UEF, Kuopio, Finland
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Mukamal KJ, Kizer JR, Djoussé L, Ix JH, Zieman S, Siscovick DS, Sibley CT, Tracy RP, Arnold AM. Prediction and classification of cardiovascular disease risk in older adults with diabetes. Diabetologia 2013; 56:275-83. [PMID: 23143166 PMCID: PMC3537882 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-012-2772-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2012] [Accepted: 10/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS We sought to derive and validate a cardiovascular disease (CVD) prediction algorithm for older adults with diabetes, and evaluate the incremental benefit of adding novel circulating biomarkers and measures of subclinical atherosclerosis. METHODS As part of the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), a population-based cohort of adults aged ≥65 years, we examined the 10 year risk of myocardial infarction, stroke and cardiovascular death in 782 older adults with diabetes, in whom 265 events occurred. We validated predictive models in 843 adults with diabetes, who were followed for 7 years in a second cohort, the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA); here 71 events occurred. RESULTS The best fitting standard model included age, smoking, systolic blood pressure, total and HDL-cholesterol, creatinine and the use of glucose-lowering agents; however, this model had a C statistic of 0.64 and poorly classified risk in men. Novel biomarkers did not improve discrimination or classification. The addition of ankle-brachial index, electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy and internal carotid intima-media thickness modestly improved discrimination (C statistic 0.68; p = 0.002) and classification (net reclassification improvement [NRI] 0.12; p = 0.01), mainly in those remaining free of CVD. Results were qualitatively similar in the MESA, with a change in C statistic from 0.65 to 0.68 and an NRI of 0.09 upon inclusion of subclinical disease measures. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION Standard clinical risk factors and novel biomarkers poorly discriminate and classify CVD risk in older adults with diabetes. The inclusion of subclinical atherosclerotic measures modestly improves these features, but to develop more robust risk prediction, a better understanding of the pathophysiology and determinants of CVD in this patient group is needed.
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- K J Mukamal
- Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 1309 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02446, USA.
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Lee DS, de Rekeneire N, Hanlon JT, Gill TM, Bauer DC, Meibohm B, Harris TB, Jeffery SM. Cognitive Impairment and Medication Complexity in Community-Living Older Adults: The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study. J Pharm Technol 2012; 28:156-162. [PMID: 24660166 DOI: 10.1177/875512251202800405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Medication complexity is a large determinant of adherence. Few studies have explored the relationship between cognitive impairment and medication complexity. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether cognitive impairment is associated with medication complexity for prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medications. METHODS In this cross-sectional analysis, we studied the association between cognitive impairment and the complexity of prescription and OTC drug regimens. Baseline participants were from the Health, Aging and Body Composition study, consisting of 3075 well-functioning 70- to 79-year-old black and white men and women. Cognitive impairment was defined by having a Modified Mini-Mental State Examination score <80. The complexity of prescription and OTC (including supplements/herbals) medications was assessed using a modified version of the Medication Regimen Complexity Index (mMRCI). The mMRCI score increases with complexity of dosage forms, number of medications, pill burden, and nondaily dosing. RESULTS The mean (SD) age was 74 (2.9) years (n = 3055; 52% female, 41% black). The median prescription mMRCI score was 6 (range 0-66). The median OTC mMRCI score was 4 (range 0-71). Adjusting for health status, demographics, and access to care, medication complexity was lower in participants with cognitive impairment for prescription (adjusted RR 0.89; 95% CI 0.80 to 0.99) and OTC medications (adjusted RR 0.76; 95% CI 0.64 to 0.93) compared to those without cognitive impairment. The number of prescription medications was not different, but the number of OTC drugs was lower for those with cognitive impairment. CONCLUSIONS In this cohort of well-functioning older adults, those with cognitive impairment had lower prescription complexity due to less-complex dosage forms, pill burden, or daily dosing. OTC complexity was also lower, primarily due to a lower number of OTC drugs. The results of this study show that further research on medication complexity and adherence and health outcomes in cognitively impaired individuals is warranted.
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- David Sh Lee
- Section of Geriatrics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT; now, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, Oregon State University/Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
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- Division of Geriatric Medicine and Geriatric Research Education, University of Pittsburgh, and Clinical Center/Center for Health Equity Research and Policy, Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Section of Geriatrics, School of Medicine, Yale University
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- Division of General and Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN
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- Geriatric Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
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Robinson-Cohen C, Littman AJ, Duncan GE, Roshanravan B, Ikizler TA, Himmelfarb J, Kestenbaum BR. Assessment of physical activity in chronic kidney disease. J Ren Nutr 2012; 23:123-31. [PMID: 22739659 DOI: 10.1053/j.jrn.2012.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2012] [Revised: 03/09/2012] [Accepted: 04/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Physical inactivity plays an important role in the development of kidney disease and its complications; however, the validity of standard tools for measuring physical activity (PA) is not well understood. STUDY DESIGN We investigated the performance of several readily available and widely used PA and physical function questionnaires, individually and in combination, against accelerometry among a cohort of chronic kidney disease (CKD) participants. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Forty-six participants from the Seattle Kidney Study, an observational cohort study of persons with CKD, completed the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly, Human Activity Profile (HAP), Medical Outcomes Study SF-36 questionnaire, and the Four-week Physical Activity History questionnaires. We simultaneously measured PA using an Actigraph GT3X accelerometer during a 14-day period. We estimated the validity of each instrument by testing its associations with log-transformed accelerometry counts. We used the Akaike information criterion to investigate the performance of combinations of questionnaires. RESULTS All questionnaire scores were significantly associated with log-transformed accelerometry counts. The HAP correlated best with accelerometry counts (r(2) = 0.32) followed by SF-36 (r(2) = 0.23). Forty-three percent of the variability in accelerometry counts data was explained by a model that combined the HAP, SF-36, and Four-week Physical Activity History questionnaires. CONCLUSION A combination of measurement tools can account for a modest component of PA in patients with CKD; however, a substantial proportion of PA is not captured by standard assessments.
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Kheir N, Hajj ME, Wilbur K, Kaissi R, Yousif A. An exploratory study on medications in Qatar homes. DRUG HEALTHCARE AND PATIENT SAFETY 2011; 3:99-106. [PMID: 22279414 PMCID: PMC3264424 DOI: 10.2147/dhps.s25372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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BACKGROUND Drug therapy is the most often used intervention for treatment and prevention of disease. However, if used inappropriately, drugs can cause more harm than good. Improper drug storage and disposal can have a direct impact on public safety, the environment, and the health care services. The purpose of this study was to characterize medications stored in Qatar homes and to explore their methods of storage and disposal, and to identify the public's source of information related to medicines. METHODS For the purpose of this cross-sectional exploratory study, a list of telephone numbers was generated from Qatar's telephone directory using a systematic sampling method. Individuals consenting to participate were interviewed using a multipart pretested survey instrument. RESULTS Data were collected from a total of 49 homes. Most respondents did not have a designated compartment or box specifically for storing medications. The majority of drugs (48%) were kept in bedrooms and a number of respondents were keeping their drugs in the fridge and in the kitchen. The most often stored classes of medicines were analgesics, antihistamines, nutritional supplements, and medications used for the respiratory system. Most respondents disposed of unwanted medicines by throwing them in the trash. In about 15% of cases, the dosage of drug taken was different from the instructions on the label. Sharing of prescription medicines was not uncommon. The majority of respondents sought information related to drugs from doctors. CONCLUSION These findings raise concerns about how medications are stored and disposed of in the community. The fact that no household routinely returned unwanted medications to a pharmacy for proper disposal places the environment at risk. There is a need for more societal awareness about the safe handling and storage of drugs in the home, and about the professional role of the pharmacist.
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- N Kheir
- College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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Whitson HE, Thielke S, Diehr P, O'Hare AM, Chaves PHM, Zakai NA, Arnold A, Chaudhry S, Ives D, Newman AB. Patterns and predictors of recovery from exhaustion in older adults: the cardiovascular health study. J Am Geriatr Soc 2011; 59:207-13. [PMID: 21288229 DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03238.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To estimate the likelihood of, and factors associated with, recovery from exhaustion in older adults. DESIGN Secondary analysis of a cohort study. SETTING Six annual examinations in four U.S. communities. PARTICIPANTS Four thousand five hundred eighty-four men and women aged 69 and older. MEASUREMENTS Exhaustion was considered present when a participant responded "a moderate amount" or "most of the time" to either of two questions: "How often have you had a hard time getting going?" and "How often does everything seem an effort?" RESULTS Of the 964 participants who originally reported exhaustion, 634 (65.8%) were exhaustion free at least once during follow-up. When data from all time points were considered, 48% of those who reported exhaustion were exhaustion free the following year. After adjustment for age, sex, race, education, and marital status, 1-year recovery was less likely in individuals with worse self-rated health and in those who were taking six or more medications or were obese, depressed, or had musculoskeletal pain or history of stroke. In proportional hazards models, the following risk factors were associated with more persistent exhaustion over 5 years: poor self-rated health, six or more medications, obesity, and depression. Recovery was not less likely in participants with a history of cancer or heart disease. CONCLUSION Exhaustion is common in old age but is dynamic, even in those with a history of cancer and congestive heart failure. Recovery is especially likely in seniors who have a positive perception of their overall health, take few medications, and are not obese or depressed. These findings support the notion that resiliency is associated with physical and psychological well-being.
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- Heather E Whitson
- Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
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Qato DM, Lindau ST, Conti RM, Schumm LP, Alexander GC. Racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular medication use among older adults in the United States. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2011; 19:834-42. [PMID: 20681002 DOI: 10.1002/pds.1974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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BACKGROUND Despite persistent racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) among older adults, information on whether there are similar disparities in the use of prescription and over-the-counter medications to prevent such disease is limited. We examined racial and ethnic disparities in the use of statins and aspirin among older adults at low, moderate, and high risk for CVD. METHODS AND RESULTS In-home interviews, including a medication inventory, were administered between June 2005 and March 2006 to 3005 community-residing individuals, ages 57-85 years, drawn from a cross-sectional, nationally-representative probability sample of the United States. Based on a modified version of the Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) risk stratification guidelines, 1066 respondents were at high cardiovascular risk, 977 were at moderate risk, and 812 were at low risk. Rates of use were highest among respondents at high cardiovascular risk. Racial differences were highest among respondents at high risk with blacks less likely than whites to use statins (38% vs. 50%, p = 0.007) and aspirin (29% vs. 44%, p = 0.008). After controlling for age, gender, comorbidity, and socioeconomic, and access to care factors, racial/ethnic disparities persisted. In particular, blacks at highest risk were less likely than their white counterparts to use statins (odds ratio (OR) 0.65, confidence interval (CI) 0.46-0.90) or aspirin (OR 0.61, CI 0.37-0.98). CONCLUSIONS These results, based on an in-home survey of actual medication use, suggest widespread underuse of indicated preventive therapies among older adults at high cardiovascular risk in the United States. Racial/ethnic disparities in such use may contribute to documented disparities in cardiovascular outcomes.
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- Dima M Qato
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
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Delaney JAC, Biggs ML, Kronmal RA, Psaty BM. Demographic, medical, and behavioral characteristics associated with over the counter non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use in a population-based cohort: results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2010; 20:83-9. [PMID: 21182156 DOI: 10.1002/pds.2065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2010] [Revised: 09/03/2010] [Accepted: 09/23/2010] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND Three types of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can be obtained both over the counter (OTC) and by prescription in the United States. OTC NSAID use is not recorded in prescription claims databases; this might lead to differential misclassification of NSAID exposure status in studies that use computerized pharmacy databases to study NSAID use. OBJECTIVE To evaluate characteristics of OTC versus prescription NSAID users. METHODS This analysis is set within the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) study; a prospective cohort study of 6814 adults from four ethnic groups (European descent, Asian, African-American, and Hispanic) with a mean age of 62 years. The cohort was restricted to those who initiated NSAID use (aspirin, ibuprofen, or naproxen) during follow-up. We compared information about age, sex, ethnicity, body mass index, smoking, diabetes, medication use, education, income, health insurance status, and exercise between groups. RESULTS OTC NSAID use was prevalent at baseline (25% aspirin, 9% ibuprofen, and 2% naproxen). Compared to prescribed NSAID use, OTC NSAID use was lower for users of non-European descent for all classes: aspirin (p < 0.0001), ibuprofen (p < 0.0001), and naproxen (p = 0.0094). For aspirin, differences were seen for male gender (relative risk (RR): 0.92; 95%confidence interval (CI): 0.86-0.98), use of lipid lowering drugs (RR: 0.88; 95%CI: 0.80-0.96), low income (RR: 0.89; 95%CI: 0.81-0.97), and participants one standard deviation above average in intentional exercise (RR: 1.03; 95%CI: 1.01-1.05). CONCLUSIONS OTC NSAID use is prevalent in an older multi-ethnic population and OTC users differ from prescription NSAID users. Caution should be exercised when using prescribed NSAIDs as a proxy for NSAID use.
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- Joseph A C Delaney
- Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes& Policy, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0496, USA.
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Vasconcelos MEL, Fonseca MJM, Rozenfeld S, Acurcio FA. Acurácia de informações sobre classes de medicamentos obtidas com questionário postal aplicado a idosos - Rio de Janeiro, RJ. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE EPIDEMIOLOGIA 2009. [DOI: 10.1590/s1415-790x2009000400008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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OBJETIVOS: verificar a confiabilidade e a validade das informações sobre medicamentos obtidas em questionário postal, respondido por idosos, sendo a entrevista face a face o padrão-ouro. MÉTODOS: estudo seccional (Perfil de Utilização de Medicamentos por Aposentados Brasileiros), onde foram utilizadas duas abordagens (postal e domiciliar) para coleta de informações de aposentados pelo Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social (INSS) com sessenta anos de idade ou mais. Foram utilizadas também as estatísticas kappa (simples (k), ajustado (PABAK) e ponderado), índices de correlação intra-classe, indicadores de sensibilidade e especificidade, e o gráfico de Luiz et al. RESULTADOS: 234 idosos (M = 42%; F = 58%) responderam às duas abordagens (média = 71,7 anos). A concordância entre postal e entrevista domiciliar foi excelente (k = 0,94) para hipoglicemiantes; muito boa (k = 0,83-0,82) para inibidores da enzima conversora de angiotensina e anti-hipertensivos; boa (k = 0,71) para diuréticos; e razoável (k = 0,47) para antiinflamatórios não esteróides. A concordância foi boa (k = 0,61) para o número total de medicamentos usados. A validade da abordagem postal foi elevada, às vezes total, para os fármacos empregados no tratamento do diabetes (sensibilidade e especificidade = 100%), seguidos dos anti-hipertensivos. Os menores valores obtidos foram para antiinflamatórios não esteróides (sensibilidade = 64%; especificidade = 88%). CONCLUSÃO: a abordagem postal pode ser usada para se obter informações acuradas sobre classes de medicamentos usados por população com idade igual ou superior a 60 anos, considerando idosos com perfil social semelhante ao dos beneficiários do INSS.
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Delaney JAC, McClelland RL, Furberg CD, Cooper R, Shea S, Burke G, Psaty BM. Time trends in the use of anti-hypertensive medications: results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2009; 18:826-32. [PMID: 19551700 DOI: 10.1002/pds.1788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Previous reports have suggested that new evidence of the comparative effectiveness of different medication classes from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) does not always alter treatment decisions for first-line anti-hypertensive therapy. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the association of RCT evidence in December 2002 from the Anti-hypertensive and Lipid-Lowering treatment to prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT) on use of anti-hypertensive medications in a multi-ethnic cohort. METHODS The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) study, a prospective cohort study of 6814 adults from four ethnic groups, had four separate assessments of drug use. Users of anti-hypertensive medications at baseline were excluded. We evaluated temporal changes in the medication class reported by new users of anti-hypertensive medications. RESULTS After the exclusion of anti-hypertensive drug users at baseline, 32% of new users of anti-hypertensive drugs seen at exam 2 were prescribed a diuretic. The publication of ALLHAT was associated with a subsequent increase in the proportion of new users taking diuretics at exam 3 compared with exam 2 (relative risk (RR): 1.31; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.09-1.59). After the report from ALLHAT, the proportion of users of diuretics seen at exam 3 rose to 44% (starting in 2004) and 39% in exam 4 (starting in 2005). This increase in the proportion of diuretic use among new users of anti-hypertensive medications declined slightly but could still be detected at exam 4 as compared to exam 2 (RR: 1.28; 95%CI: 1.04-1.57). CONCLUSIONS The randomized trial evidence from the ALLHAT study was temporally associated with a moderate increase in diuretic use.
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- Joseph A C Delaney
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
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Pit S, Byles J. Older Australians' medication use: self-report by phone showed good agreement and accuracy compared with home visit. J Clin Epidemiol 2009; 63:428-34. [PMID: 19788955 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2008] [Revised: 05/30/2009] [Accepted: 07/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To ascertain the accuracy of telephone-interview method for measuring older people's medication use ("self-report by phone") by determining agreement between results from this method and from a home visit ("home inventory"). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING An agreement study involving community-dwelling patients aged more than 65 years, selected from four general practices in the Hunter Region of Australia. Commonly used classes of drugs were selected for comparison. RESULTS Of 154 patients, 14 participants were ineligible, because they had hearing problems (9) or did not use any medicines (5). The response rate was 70% (98 of 140). The observed overall agreement and prevalence-adjusted and bias-adjusted kappa coefficients were very high for all prescribed drug categories, but lower for over-the-counter (OTC) and complementary medicines. Specificity of the self-report by phone compared with home inventory was consistently high across all drug classes. Sensitivity values were more than 89% for all drug classes but were lower for OTC and complementary medicines (74%) and paracetamol (78%). Similar patterns were found for negative predictive values. Positive predictive values were lower for drugs used on an as-needed basis. CONCLUSION Measuring patient's medication use by telephone is an accurate and relatively inexpensive alternative to home-inventory methods, and has merit for use in future studies of older patients' drug use.
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- Sabrina Pit
- Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Lismore, New South Wales 2480, Australia.
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Pit SW, Byles JE, Cockburn J. Accuracy of telephone self-report of drug use in older people and agreement with pharmaceutical claims data. Drugs Aging 2008; 25:71-80. [PMID: 18184031 DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200825010-00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine the agreement between two measures of medication use, namely telephone interview self-report and pharmaceutical claims data, in an elderly population. METHODS An agreement study of 566 community-dwelling, general practice patients aged > or =65 years was conducted to compare self-reported use of medicines with pharmaceutical claims data for different retrieval periods. Classes of drugs commonly used in the elderly were selected for comparison. RESULTS 1094 people were eligible for the main study. Of these, 697 people completed a follow-up survey and 625 of these patients consented to the release of pharmaceutical claims data. A further 59 participants were excluded from the analysis because they had a home visit instead of a telephone interview. The proportion of observed agreement between the telephone self-report and the various retrieval periods was consistently high. Kappa coefficients showed good to very good agreement (> or = 0.75) with retrieval periods of 30, 60 and 90 days for benzodiazepines, low-risk NSAIDs, thiazide diuretics and most other drugs. The specificity of self-reported medication use compared with claims data was consistently high across all drug classes, suggesting that people usually did not mention drugs that were not included in the claims data. Sensitivity values varied according to drug class and retrieval period, and were lower for NSAIDs than for benzodiazepines and thiazide diuretics. Decline in sensitivity with increased retrieval periods was most marked for benzodiazepines, NSAIDs and low-risk NSAIDs, which are often used on an as-needed basis. Positive predictive values increased with longer retrieval periods CONCLUSION High agreement and accuracy were demonstrated for self-reported use of medicines when patients were interviewed over the telephone compared with pharmaceutical claims data. The telephone inventory method can be used in future studies for accurately measuring drug use in older people when claims data are not available.
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- Sabrina Winona Pit
- School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
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Harnack L, Stevens M, Van Heel N, Schakel S, Dwyer JT, Himes J. A computer-based approach for assessing dietary supplement use in conjunction with dietary recalls. J Food Compost Anal 2008; 21:S78-S82. [PMID: 19190705 DOI: 10.1016/j.jfca.2007.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In response to the need to assess both food and supplemental sources of nutrients, we have expanded the capabilities of Nutrition Data System for Research (NDSR) software to allow for assessing dietary supplement use. A Dietary Supplement Assessment Module allows for the automated collection and coding of dietary supplement use. The module is designed for use in conjunction with the software's 24-hour dietary recall features. The medication inventory method, commonly used in pharmaceutical research, served as the basis for the module's assessment approach. In adapting this approach for use in our software we designed a tiered structure that involves first screening for use of dietary supplements, then collecting product detail (e.g. full name of product, number of times taken, etc.), and finally reviewing the information with the participant. Preliminary results from a demonstration study being conducted to evaluate the Module indicate the assessment approach is acceptable to both participants and interviewers. Collecting dietary supplement use information significantly increases interview time, especially for those using multiple products. A validation study is needed to determine whether the new method results in accurate estimation of nutrient intake from supplemental sources.
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- Lisa Harnack
- University of Minnesota. Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, 1300 South 2nd St. Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
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Glintborg B, Hillestrøm PR, Olsen LH, Dalhoff KP, Poulsen HE. Are patients reliable when self-reporting medication use? Validation of structured drug interviews and home visits by drug analysis and prescription data in acutely hospitalized patients. J Clin Pharmacol 2008; 47:1440-9. [PMID: 17962430 DOI: 10.1177/0091270007307243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The medication history among hospitalized patients often relies on patients' self-reports due to insufficient communication between health care professionals. The aim of the present study was to estimate the reliability of patients' self-reported medication use. Five hundred patients admitted to an acute medical department at a Danish university hospital were interviewed on the day of admission about their recent medication use. Blood samples drawn immediately after admission were screened for contents of 5 drugs (digoxin, bendroflumethiazide, amlodipine, simvastatin, glimepiride), and the results were compared to the patients' self-reported medication history. Information on prescribed drugs dispensed from any Danish pharmacy was collected from nationwide real-time pharmacy records. The authors performed home visits in a subgroup of 115 patients 4 weeks after their discharge. Stored drugs were inspected, and patients were interviewed about their drug use. Additional blood samples were drawn for drug analysis. The median age of included patients was 72 years, and 298 patients (60%) were women. Patients reported use of 3 (median) prescription-only medications (range, 0-14) during the structured interview. The congruence between self-report and drug analysis was high for all 5 drugs measured (all kappa >0.8). However, 9 patients (2%) reported use of drugs that were not detected in their blood samples. In 29 patients (6%), the blood samples contained drugs not reported during the structured interview, but 14 of these drugs were registered in either hospital files or pharmacy records. Overall, the sensitivity of information from hospital files, structured interviews, and pharmacy records in identifying drug users was 87% to 93%, with no significant differences between methods. In conclusion, patients' self-reports are reliable when estimating recent use of cardiovascular and antidiabetic drugs.
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- Bente Glintborg
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology Q7642, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Szekely CA, Breitner JCS, Fitzpatrick AL, Rea TD, Psaty BM, Kuller LH, Zandi PP. NSAID use and dementia risk in the Cardiovascular Health Study: role of APOE and NSAID type. Neurology 2007; 70:17-24. [PMID: 18003940 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000284596.95156.48] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Epidemiologic and laboratory studies suggest that nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduce risk of Alzheimer disease (AD). We therefore investigated the association between use of NSAIDs, aspirin, and the non-NSAID analgesic acetaminophen with incidence of dementia and AD. METHODS Participants in the Cardiovascular Health Cognition Study included 3,229 individuals aged 65 or older, free of dementia at baseline, with information on medication use. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to estimate the association of medication use with incident all-cause dementia, AD, and vascular dementia (VaD). Additional analyses considered the NSAID-AD relationship as a function of age, presence of at least one epsilon 4 allele at APOE, race, and individual NSAIDs' reported ability to reduce production of the amyloid-beta peptide variant A beta(42). RESULTS Use of NSAIDs was associated with a lower risk of dementia (adjusted hazard ratio or aHR 0.76, 95% CI or CI 0.60-0.96) and, in particular, AD (aHR 0.63, CI 0.45-0.88), but not VaD (aHR 0.92, CI 0.65-1.28). No similar trends were observed with acetaminophen (aHR 0.99, CI 0.79-1.24). Closer examination suggested AD risk reduction with NSAIDs only in participants having an APOE epsilon 4 allele (aHR 0.34, CI 0.18-0.65; aHR for others 0.88, CI 0.59-1.32). There was no advantage in AD risk reduction with NSAIDs reported to selectively reduce A beta(42). CONCLUSIONS Results were consistent with previous cohort studies showing reduced risk of AD in NSAID users, but this association was found only in those with an APOE epsilon 4 allele, and there was no advantage for A beta(42)-lowering NSAIDs.
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- C A Szekely
- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Hampton House Room 857, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Schellenbaum GD, Smith NL, Heckbert SR, Lumley T, Rea TD, Furberg CD, Lyles MF, Psaty BM. Weight loss, muscle strength, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in older adults with congestive heart failure or hypertension. J Am Geriatr Soc 2006; 53:1996-2000. [PMID: 16274385 DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53568.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To determine whether angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor use may be associated with weight maintenance and sustained muscle strength (measured by grip strength) in older adults. DESIGN Data from the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), a community-based prospective cohort study of 5,888 older adults, were used. SETTING Subjects were recruited from four U.S. sites beginning in 1989; this analysis included data through 2001. PARTICIPANTS CHS participants with congestive heart failure (CHF) or treated hypertension. MEASUREMENTS The exposure, current ACE inhibitor use, was ascertained by medication inventory at annual clinic visits; the outcomes were weight change and grip-strength change during the following year. Multivariate linear regression was used, accounting for correlations between observations on the same participant over time. RESULTS The average annual weight change was -0.38 kg in 2,834 participants (14,443 person-years) with treated hypertension and -0.62 kg in 342 participants (980 person-years) with CHF. ACE inhibitor use was associated with less annual weight loss after adjustment for potential confounders: a difference of 0.17 kg (95% confidence interval (CI)=0.05-0.29) in those with treated hypertension and 0.29 kg (95% CI=-0.25-0.83) in those with CHF. There was no evidence of association between ACE inhibitor use and grip-strength change. CONCLUSION ACE inhibitor use may be associated with weight maintenance, but not maintenance of muscle strength, in older adults with treated hypertension.
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- Gina D Schellenbaum
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Chan JD, Rea TD, Smith NL, Siscovick D, Heckbert SR, Lumley T, Chaves P, Furberg CD, Kuller L, Psaty BM. Association of beta-blocker use with mortality among patients with congestive heart failure in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). Am Heart J 2005; 150:464-70. [PMID: 16169325 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2004.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2004] [Accepted: 12/26/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND In clinical trials, beta-blocker therapy reduces all-cause mortality among people with congestive heart failure (CHF) characterized by depressed systolic function, but few trials included large numbers of elderly participants. This study assessed the association between beta-blocker therapy and mortality among community-dwelling older adults with CHF. METHODS The Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) is a longitudinal, population-based study of adults aged > or = 65 years. Recruitment began in 1989 with follow-up extending through June 2000 or death. Cox proportional hazard regression models were used to assess the association between beta-blocker therapy and all-cause mortality among 950 participants who developed new-onset CHF. RESULTS beta-Blocker users (n = 157) were more likely than nonusers (n = 793) to have treated hypertension, clinical coronary artery disease, and valvular disease at the time of CHF diagnosis. Death occurred in 67 users and 446 nonusers during a median follow-up of 2.3 years. Compared with nonuse, use of beta-blockers was associated with a multivariable adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of 0.74 (95% CI 0.56-0.98) for all-cause mortality. Among the 520 participants who had left ventricular ejection fraction assessed within 90 days after CHF diagnosis, the risk for all cause mortality associated with beta-blocker use did not differ significantly between those with ejection fraction of < 40% and those with ejection fraction of > or = 40% (HR 0.56, 95% CI 0.27-1.13; HR 0.82, 95% CI 0.56-1.22, respectively; interaction P = .34). CONCLUSIONS This observational study suggests that beta-blocker treatment is associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality among community-dwelling older adults with CHF.
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- Jeannie D Chan
- Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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De Schryver ELLM, van Gijn J, Kappelle LJ, Koudstaal PJ, Algra A. Non–adherence to aspirin or oral anticoagulants in secondary prevention after ischaemic stroke. J Neurol 2005; 252:1316-21. [PMID: 15868068 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-005-0858-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2004] [Revised: 02/07/2005] [Accepted: 02/14/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND The effectiveness of medication is influenced by treatment adherence. After TIA or minor disabling stroke patients usually are advised to take antithrombotic medication. Stroke patients are an interesting group of patients with respect to adherence, since cardiovascular risk factors and stroke may (indirectly) negatively influence brain function, which can affect adherence. We investigated determinants of non-adherence in patients who used aspirin or oral anticoagulation after cerebral ischaemia of arterial origin. METHODS Data of patients prospectively followed in two clinical trials (the Dutch TIA Trial and the Stroke Prevention In Reversible Ischaemia Trial) were analysed with Cox proportional hazards modelling. RESULTS In the two trials 3796 patients were treated with aspirin. During a mean follow-up of 2.1 years, 689 patients (18%) prematurely stopped treatment, 305 (8 %) did so without a clear medical reason (non-adherence). Age >or= 65 years and the use of 300 instead of 30 mg of aspirin were independently associated with non-adherence. Diastolic blood pressure of >or= 90 mmHg and dizziness were associated with better adherence. Of 651 patients on oral anticoagulation, 143 patients (22 %) stopped after a mean follow-up of 1.0 year, 66 (10 %) did so because of nonadherence. No statistically significant determinants for non-adherence were identified. CONCLUSION As found in the literature on nonadherence in general, age of >or= 65 years and a higher dose of aspirin (300 mg versus 30 mg) were independently associated with non-adherence with aspirin treatment that was prescribed for secondary prevention after cerebral ischaemia of arterial origin. Older patients may require extra encouragement to continue antithrombotic treatment. Lower doses of aspirin may improve treatment adherence.
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Lewis JD, Strom BL, Kimmel SE, Farrar J, Metz DC, Brensinger C, Nessel L, Localio AR. Predictors of recall of over-the-counter and prescription non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug exposure. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2005; 15:39-45. [PMID: 16136614 DOI: 10.1002/pds.1134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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PURPOSE Because of the difficulty in establishing a gold standard, data on accuracy of recall of over-the-counter (OTC) medication use are sparse. METHODS We studied a cohort of 1889 persons living in the Philadelphia area to assess recall of non-aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NANSAID) use during the preceding 8 weeks. Our analyses were based on the assumption that among the group of subjects, on average, the reported usage of NANSAIDs should not vary over the previous 8 weeks. To model the effect of time on reported usage while allowing for the inherent correlation of responses within subjects over time, we employed alternating logistic regression. RESULTS We documented a significant decline in reported use of OTC NANSAIDs but not prescription NANSAIDs during the 8-week study period (p = 0.3 for frequent prescription NANSAIDs, p = 0.2 for infrequent prescription NANSAIDs, p < 0.001 for frequent OTC NANSAIDs, and p < 0.001 for infrequent OTC NANSAIDs). Reported rates of frequent and infrequent OTC NANSAID consumption declined from 6.3 to 4.6% and from 17.1 to 12.8% between the most recent week and eight weeks prior, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Interviews focusing on medications used on an as needed basis should be performed as close as possible to the index date. Likewise, data on frequent use of OTC NANSAIDs may be more reliable than that on infrequent use, particularly when subjects are asked to recall more than a few weeks back in time.
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- James D Lewis
- Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Rhoads CS, Psaty BM, Olson JL, Furberg CD. Medications and Cardiovascular Health in Older Adults: Room for Improvement in Prevention and Treatment. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC CARDIOLOGY 2004; 13:161-7. [PMID: 15133419 DOI: 10.1111/j.1076-7460.2004.02124.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Caroline S Rhoads
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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Schectman JM, Schorling JB, Nadkarni MM, Voss JD. Can prescription refill feedback to physicians improve patient adherence? Am J Med Sci 2004; 327:19-24. [PMID: 14722392 DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200401000-00005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Although adherence to long-term drug therapy is an important issue, the means to facilitate its assessment and improvement in clinical practice remain a challenge. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of prescription refill feedback and adherence education provided to primary care physicians. METHODS We provided 83 resident and attending physicians at a university-based general internal medicine practice with refill adherence reports on each of 340 diabetic patients. An educational session on adherence assessment and improvement techniques was held, and all physicians received a written outline on this topic. Physician attitude toward the intervention and 6-month change in refill adherence (doses filled/doses prescribed) of their patient panels were assessed. A nonrandomized comparison group of patients receiving hypertension medications for whom the physicians did not receive feedback was also evaluated. RESULTS The overall improvement in mean refill adherence was not significant (83.9% vs 86.0%, P=0.18). The educational session was attended by 53% of the physicians. The patient refill adherence of physicians attending the educational session improved by 5.0% (P<0.0009) with no significant change among patients of physicians not attending the session. There was no adherence change among patients for whom physicians did not receive refill feedback data, regardless of educational session attendance. CONCLUSIONS Patients of physicians that received refill feedback and attended an educational session improved their refill adherence. After replication of these results in a randomized trial, broad implementation of this approach could have substantial impact from a public health perspective, given the ubiquity of prescription claims data.
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- Joel M Schectman
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908, USA.
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