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Koch M, Aroner SA, Fitzpatrick AL, Longstreth WT, Furtado JD, Mukamal KJ, Jensen MK. HDL (High-Density Lipoprotein) Subspecies, Prevalent Covert Brain Infarcts, and Incident Overt Ischemic Stroke: Cardiovascular Health Study. Stroke 2021; 53:1292-1300. [PMID: 34645286 DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.121.034299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Whether HDL (high-density lipoprotein) is associated with risk of vascular brain injury is unclear. HDL is comprised of many apo (apolipoprotein) species, creating distinct subtypes of HDL. METHODS We utilized sandwich ELISA to determine HDL subspecies from plasma collected in 1998/1999 from 2001 CHS (Cardiovascular Health Study) participants (mean age, 80 years). RESULTS In cross-sectional analyses, participants with higher apoA1 in plasma and lower apoE in HDL were less likely to have prevalent covert magnetic resonance imaging-defined infarcts: odds ratio for apoA1 Q4 versus Q1, 0.68 (95% CI, 0.50-0.93), and odds ratio for apoE Q4 versus Q1, 1.36 (95% CI, 1.01-1.84). Similarly, apoA1 in the subspecies of HDL that lacked apoC3, apoJ, or apoE was inversely related to covert infarcts, and apoE in the subspecies of HDL that lacked apoC3 or apoJ was directly related to covert infarcts in prospective analyses. In contrast, the concentrations of apoA1 and apoE in the complementary subspecies of HDL that contained these apos were unrelated to covert infarcts. Patterns of associations between incident overt ischemic stroke and apoA1, apoE, and apoA1 and apoE in subspecies of HDL were similar to those observed for covert infarcts but less pronounced. CONCLUSIONS This study highlights HDL subspecies defined by apo content as relevant biomarkers of covert and overt vascular brain injury.
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- Manja Koch
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA (M.K., S.A.A., J.D.F., K.J.M., M.K.J.)
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA (M.K., S.A.A., J.D.F., K.J.M., M.K.J.).,Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (S.A.A.)
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle. (A.L.F.).,Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle. (A.L.F.).,Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle. (A.L.F.)
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- Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle. (W.T.L.).,Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle. (W.T.L.)
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA (M.K., S.A.A., J.D.F., K.J.M., M.K.J.)
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA (M.K., S.A.A., J.D.F., K.J.M., M.K.J.).,Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA (K.J.M.)
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA (M.K., S.A.A., J.D.F., K.J.M., M.K.J.).,Department of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (M.K.J.)
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Huang G, Aroner SA, Bay CP, Gilman SE, Ghassabian A, Loucks EB, Buka SL, Handa RJ, Lasley BL, Bhasin S, Goldstein JM. Sex-dependent associations of maternal androgen levels with offspring BMI and weight trajectory from birth to early childhood. J Endocrinol Invest 2021; 44:851-863. [PMID: 32776198 PMCID: PMC7873156 DOI: 10.1007/s40618-020-01385-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 08/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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CONTEXT In preclinical studies, high androgen levels during pregnancy are associated with low birth weight and rapid postnatal weight gain in the offspring. However, human data linking prenatal androgens with birth weight and early life weight gain in the offspring are scarce. DESIGN We evaluated 516 mother-child pairs enrolled in the New England birth cohorts of the Collaborative Perinatal Project (1959-1966). We assayed androgen bioactivity in maternal sera during third-trimester using a receptor-mediated luciferase expression bioassay. Age and sex-specific BMI Z-scores (BMIz), defined using established standards, were assessed at birth, 4 months, 1 year, 4 years, and 7 years. We used linear mixed models to evaluate the relation of maternal androgens with childhood BMIz overall and by sex. We examined the association of maternal androgens with fetal growth restriction. The association of weight trajectories with maternal androgens was examined using multinomial logistic regression. RESULTS Higher maternal androgen levels associated with lower BMIz at birth (β = - 0.39, 95% CI: - 0.73, - 0.06); this relation was sex-dependent, such that maternal androgens significantly associated with BMIz at birth in girls alone (β = - 0.72, 95% CI: - 1.40, - 0.04). The relation of maternal androgens with fetal growth restriction revealed dose threshold effects that differed by sex. There was no significant association between maternal androgens and weight trajectory overall. However, we found a significant sex interaction (p = 0.01); higher maternal androgen levels associated with accelerated catch-up growth in boys (aOR = 2.14, 95% CI: 1.14, 4.03). CONCLUSION Our findings provide evidence that maternal androgens may have differential effects on the programming of intrauterine growth and postnatal weight gain depending on fetal sex.
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- G Huang
- Section of Men's Health, Aging and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Clinical Investigation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Social and Behavioral Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Environmental Medicine, and Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Center for Health and the Environment, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- Center for Health and the Environment, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Section of Men's Health, Aging and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Aroner SA, Furtado JD, Sacks FM, Tsai MY, Mukamal KJ, McClelland RL, Jensen MK. Apolipoprotein C-III and its defined lipoprotein subspecies in relation to incident diabetes: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Diabetologia 2019; 62:981-992. [PMID: 30949716 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-019-4847-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2018] [Accepted: 02/07/2019] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS Apolipoprotein C-III (apoC-III) is a small proinflammatory protein that may play a key role in diabetes pathophysiology. However, prior observational studies have been limited to predominantly white populations, and the biological links between apoC-III and diabetes, particularly the role of apoC-III on specific lipoprotein particles, are not yet well understood. We therefore investigated associations of total apoC-III and apoC-III-defined lipoprotein subspecies with incident diabetes and glucose metabolism measures in a multi-ethnic cohort. METHODS For the current analyses, baseline (2000-2002) plasma total apoC-III and apolipoprotein A-I concentrations of HDL containing or lacking apoC-III were newly measured via sandwich ELISA in 4579 participants from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Multivariable Cox regression was used to examine associations of apolipoproteins with incident diabetes until early 2012 (567 cases), and linear mixed models were used to estimate associations with longitudinally assessed continuous measures of glucose metabolism. Similar exploratory analyses of plasma apolipoprotein B concentrations of LDL and VLDL containing or lacking apoC-III were performed in a subset of participants (LDL, n = 1545; VLDL, n = 1526). RESULTS In the overall population, elevated total apoC-III concentrations were associated with a higher rate of diabetes (top vs bottom quintile, HR 1.88; 95% CI 1.42, 2.47; ptrend = 0.0002). ApoC-III-defined HDL subspecies displayed opposing associations with incidence of diabetes (p for heterogeneity = 0.02). While HDL lacking apoC-III was inversely associated with incidence of diabetes (top vs bottom quintile, HR 0.66; 95% CI 0.46, 0.93; ptrend = 0.002), HDL containing apoC-III was not associated (HR 1.11; 95% CI 0.78, 1.58; ptrend = 0.61). Similarly, only HDL lacking apoC-III was beneficially associated with plasma glucose (ptrend = 0.003), HbA1c (ptrend = 0.04) and insulin sensitivity (ptrend < 0.0001), and higher HDL containing apoC-III was associated with lower insulin sensitivity (ptrend = 0.04). Neither of the apoC-III-defined LDL subspecies was associated with incident diabetes, while VLDL was more strongly associated with the incidence of diabetes when it lacked apoC-III. Further adjustment for plasma triacylglycerols as a potential intermediate attenuated the associations of total apoC-III and apoC-III-defined lipoprotein subspecies. No statistically significant differences were observed across racial/ethnic groups. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION Our findings in a multi-ethnic population support the involvement of apoC-III in the development of diabetes, potentially through its association with circulating triacylglycerols. The presence of apoC-III on HDL also diminished the protective association of HDL with incident diabetes. Further investigation of apoC-III and apoC-III-defined HDL subspecies may inform the development of novel diabetes treatment and prevention strategies.
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- Sarah A Aroner
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Aroner SA, Koch M, Mukamal KJ, Furtado JD, Stein JH, Tattersall MC, McClelland RL, Jensen MK. High-Density Lipoprotein Subspecies Defined by Apolipoprotein C-III and Subclinical Atherosclerosis Measures: MESA (The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis). J Am Heart Assoc 2018. [PMID: 29540426 PMCID: PMC5907551 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.117.007824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Background Apolipoprotein C‐III (apoC‐III), a small proinflammatory protein present on 6% to 7% of high‐density lipoprotein (HDL) particles, defines a subspecies of HDL adversely associated with coronary heart disease in primarily white cohorts. In a multi‐ethnic population free of clinical cardiovascular disease, we evaluated the relationship between apoC‐III–defined HDL subspecies and subclinical markers of atherosclerotic pathology. Methods and Results We investigated cross‐sectional associations between apolipoprotein A‐I concentrations of apoC‐III–defined HDL subspecies, measured via ELISA and imaging measures of subclinical atherosclerosis, among 4659 participants in the MESA (The Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) at baseline (2000–2002). HDL particles containing and lacking apoC‐III were divergently associated with coronary artery calcification in women (P‐heterogeneity=0.002) but not in men (P‐heterogeneity=0.31) and with carotid plaque score (P‐heterogeneity=0.02) and intima‐media thickness (P‐heterogeneity=0.06) in the overall study population. HDL lacking apoC‐III was inversely associated with all outcome measures (coronary artery calcification, women: odds ratio per SD=0.81 [95% confidence interval [CI], 0.73–0.90]; carotid plaque, overall: odds ratio per SD=0.92 [95% CI, 0.84–1.00]; intima‐media thickness, overall: mean difference per SD=−14.0 µm [95% CI, −21.1 to −6.7 μm]), whereas HDL containing apoC‐III was positively associated (coronary artery calcification, women: odds ratio=1.10 [95% CI, 0.99–1.22]; plaque, overall: odds ratio=1.10 [95% CI, 1.01–1.19]) or unassociated. Neither total HDL nor HDL subspecies was associated with changes in subclinical atherosclerosis measures up to 10 years later. Conclusions The presence of apoC‐III defined a subspecies of HDL not inversely associated with baseline measures of subclinical atherosclerosis, supporting a role of apoC‐III in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease.
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- Sarah A Aroner
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
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- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA .,Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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Yamamoto R, Sacks FM, Hu FB, Rosner B, Furtado JD, Aroner SA, Ferrannini E, Baldi S, Kozakova M, Balkau B, Natali A, Jensen MK. High density lipoprotein with apolipoprotein C-III is associated with carotid intima-media thickness among generally healthy individuals. Atherosclerosis 2018; 269:92-99. [PMID: 29351856 DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2017.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2017] [Revised: 11/28/2017] [Accepted: 12/21/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS About 6-7% of high density lipoprotein (HDL) has a protein called apolipoprotein (apo) C-III that regulates lipoprotein metabolism and can provoke an inflammatory response. HDL without apoC-III is inversely associated with coronary heart disease (CHD), whereas HDL with apoC-III is directly associated with CHD. We investigated how the presence of apoC-III affects the association between HDL and early stages of atherosclerosis measured as carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT). METHODS We examined the cross-sectional associations between the apoA-I concentrations of HDL subspecies with and without apoC-III and cIMT measured by high resolution B-mode carotid ultrasonography among 847 participants from the European multi-center Relationship between Insulin Sensitivity and Cardiovascular disease (RISC) study. RESULTS HDL with and without apoC-III demonstrated significantly opposite associations with both cIMT indexes (p-heterogeneity of associations comparing the two subspecies was 0.002 for cIMT at common carotid artery (cIMT at CCA) and 0.006 for the maximum cIMT in any carotid segment (cIMT max)). Compared to the lowest quintile, the highest quintile of apoA-I in HDL without apoC-III was associated with 3.7% lower cIMT at CCA (p-trend = 0.01) or 7.3% lower cIMT max (p-trend = 0.003), while the highest quintile of apoA-I in HDL with apoC-III was associated with 4.4% higher cIMT at CCA (p-trend = 0.001) or 7.9% higher cIMT max (p-trend = 0.002). Total apoA-I as well as total HDL cholesterol was not associated with cIMT whereas higher levels of total apoC-III and apoC-III contained in HDL were significantly associated with higher cIMT (p-trend<0.01). CONCLUSIONS HDL apoC-III is a promising target for atherosclerosis prevention and treatment.
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- Rain Yamamoto
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Jensen MK, Aroner SA, Mukamal KJ, Furtado JD, Post WS, Tsai MY, Tjønneland A, Polak JF, Rimm EB, Overvad K, McClelland RL, Sacks FM. High-Density Lipoprotein Subspecies Defined by Presence of Apolipoprotein C-III and Incident Coronary Heart Disease in Four Cohorts. Circulation 2017; 137:1364-1373. [PMID: 29162611 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.117.031276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 10/31/2017] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND The causal role of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in cardioprotection has been questioned by genetic and randomized studies. Novel measures that relate to HDL function may contribute new information to the prediction of cardiovascular risk. Apolipoprotein C-III (apoC-III) is a key regulator of lipoprotein metabolism. We investigated whether subspecies of HDL defined by apoC-III are associated with coronary heart disease (CHD). METHODS We used immunoaffinity chromatography to measure the apoA-I concentrations of HDL that contains and lacks apoC-III in 2 prospective studies of adults free of CHD. In MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis), 5657 participants (52% women, 52-72 years of age) were followed for risk of CHD from 2000 to 2002 through 2013. In a case-cohort study nested within the DCH study (Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health), 3642 participants (47% women, 51-64 years of age) were followed from 1994 to 1997 through 2010. Subsequently, we conducted a meta-analysis that combined these results with the previously published findings from 2 cohort studies that used similar laboratory methodology to measure lipoproteins, totaling 2997 incident cases. RESULTS ApoC-III was found on 6% to 8% of apoA-I. The 2 HDL subspecies showed opposing associations, with risk of CHD in each of the individual cohorts and in the meta-analysis (P heterogeneity between the 2 subspecies <0.01). HDL that contains apoC-III was associated with a higher risk of CHD (pooled relative risk per standard deviation, 1.09; 95% confidence interval, 1.01-1.18), whereas HDL that lacks apoC-III was associated with lower risk (relative risk, 0.76; 95% confidence interval, 0.70-0.83). The relative risk for HDL lacking apoC-III was even more negative than the relative risk for total HDL (relative risk, 0.80; 95% confidence interval, 0.74-0.87). CONCLUSIONS Our findings from 4 prospective studies support the hypothesis that apoC-III may mark a subfraction of HDL that is associated with higher risk of CHD. New measures reflecting HDL structure and function may provide novel insights for cardiovascular risk that extend beyond traditional plasma HDL cholesterol concentrations.
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- Majken K Jensen
- Departments of Nutrition (M.K.J., S.A.A., E.B.R., J.D.F., F.M.S.) .,Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; and the Channing Division of Network Medicine (M.K.J., E.B.R., F.M.S.), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Departments of Nutrition (M.K.J., S.A.A., E.B.R., J.D.F., F.M.S.)
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA (K.J.M.)
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- Departments of Nutrition (M.K.J., S.A.A., E.B.R., J.D.F., F.M.S.)
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (W.S.P.)
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (M.Y.T.)
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (A.T.)
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- Department of Radiology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA (J.F.P.)
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- Departments of Nutrition (M.K.J., S.A.A., E.B.R., J.D.F., F.M.S.).,Epidemiology (E.B.R.).,Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; and the Channing Division of Network Medicine (M.K.J., E.B.R., F.M.S.), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus Denmark & Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark (K.O.)
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- Departments of Nutrition (M.K.J., S.A.A., E.B.R., J.D.F., F.M.S.).,Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; and the Channing Division of Network Medicine (M.K.J., E.B.R., F.M.S.), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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Aroner SA, Yang M, Li J, Furtado JD, Sacks FM, Tjønneland A, Overvad K, Cai T, Jensen MK. Apolipoprotein C-III and High-Density Lipoprotein Subspecies Defined by Apolipoprotein C-III in Relation to Diabetes Risk. Am J Epidemiol 2017; 186:736-744. [PMID: 28520887 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2016] [Accepted: 11/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Apolipoprotein C-III (apoC-III) is a potentially novel biomarker that may play an important role in the pathogenesis of diabetes, particularly when present on the surface of high-density lipoprotein (HDL). In a case-cohort study carried out among 434 incident diabetes cases occurring before 2007 and 3,101 noncases in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study, we examined associations of baseline (1993-1997) plasma concentrations of apoC-III and subspecies of HDL defined by the presence or absence of apoC-III with risk of diabetes using Cox regression. ApoC-III was strongly associated with risk of diabetes (for top quintile vs. bottom quintile, hazard ratio (HR) = 3.43, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.75, 6.70; P-trend < 0.001). The cholesterol concentration of HDL (HDL cholesterol (HDL-C)) without apoC-III was inversely associated with risk of diabetes (HR = 0.48, 95% CI: 0.27, 0.85; P-trend = 0.002), more so than total HDL-C (HR = 0.60, 95% CI: 0.35, 1.03; P-trend = 0.04), whereas HDL-C with apoC-III was not associated (HR = 1.05, 95% CI: 0.50, 2.21; P-trend = 0.44) (for HDL-C with apoC-III vs. HDL-C without apoC-III, P-heterogeneity = 0.002). ApoC-III itself is a strong risk marker for diabetes, and its presence on HDL may impair the antidiabetogenic properties of HDL. ApoC-III has potential to be a therapeutic target for the prevention of diabetes.
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Aroner SA, Mukamal KJ, St-Jules DE, Budoff MJ, Katz R, Criqui MH, Allison MA, de Boer IH, Siscovick DS, Ix JH, Jensen MK. Fetuin-A and Risk of Diabetes Independent of Liver Fat Content: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Am J Epidemiol 2017; 185:54-64. [PMID: 27856445 PMCID: PMC5209585 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kww095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2015] [Accepted: 08/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Fetuin-A is a hepatic secretory protein and a novel risk factor for diabetes. However, it remains unclear whether the association between high levels of fetuin-A and diabetes can be attributed to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. We conducted a case-cohort study among 1,957 subcohort members and 455 incident diabetes cases in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, a multicenter US study of Caucasian, African-American, Hispanic, and Chinese-American adults aged 45-84 years. Serum fetuin-A and computed tomography-determined liver fat content were measured from samples collected at baseline (2000-2002). In multivariable Cox proportional hazards models with follow-up through 2012, a higher fetuin-A level was associated with a higher risk of diabetes, with a stronger association among women (for top quartile vs. bottom, hazard ratio (HR) = 3.36, 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.08, 5.44) than among men (HR = 1.47, 95% CI: 0.93, 2.35) (P-heterogeneity = 0.001). Adjustment for liver fat content attenuated these associations slightly (women: HR = 2.61, 95% CI: 1.59, 4.26; men: HR = 1.32, 95% CI: 0.84, 2.08). In this study, we observed a particularly strong association of fetuin-A with diabetes risk in women that could not be explained by liver fat.
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- Sarah A. Aroner
- Correspondence to Dr. Sarah A. Aroner, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Building 2, Room 302, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: )
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Collins LC, Aroner SA, Connolly JL, Colditz GA, Schnitt SJ, Tamimi RM. Breast cancer risk by extent and type of atypical hyperplasia: An update from the Nurses' Health Studies. Cancer 2015; 122:515-20. [PMID: 26565738 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2015] [Accepted: 10/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND Women with atypical hyperplasia (AH) on a benign breast biopsy specimen are at increased risk for the development of breast cancer. However, the relation between the type and extent of AH (atypical ductal hyperplasia [ADH] vs atypical lobular hyperplasia [ALH]) and the magnitude of the breast cancer risk is not well defined. METHODS A nested case-control study of benign breast disease and breast cancer risk was conducted. Women with breast cancer and prior benign breast biopsy findings (488 cases) were matched to women with prior benign breast biopsy findings who were free from breast cancer (1907 controls). Benign breast biopsy slides were reviewed and categorized as nonproliferative, proliferative without atypia, or AH (ADH or ALH). The number of foci of AH was also recorded. RESULTS Among women with ADH, the interrelation between the extent of atypia and breast cancer risk was not significant (odds ratio [OR] for 1 or 2 foci, 3.5; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.2-5.6; OR for ≥3 foci, 2.7; 95% CI, 1.4-5.1; P = .41). Similarly, although the risk with ALH was higher for those with ≥3 foci than for those with <3 foci, the difference was not statistically significant (OR for 1 or 2 foci, 5.2; 95% CI, 2.7-10.0; OR for ≥3 foci, 8.0; 95% CI, 4.5-14.2; P = .19). CONCLUSIONS This analysis demonstrates that the extent of ADH or ALH does not significantly contribute to breast cancer risk. The lack of a significant dose-response relation between the extent and type of atypia and breast cancer risk suggests that it would be premature to use the extent of atypia to influence management decisions for women with ADH or ALH.
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Affiliation(s)
- Laura C Collins
- Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Institute of Public Health, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death and disability worldwide. Therefore, great importance has been placed on the discovery of novel risk factors and metabolic pathways relevant in the prevention and management of CVD. Such research is ongoing and may continue to lead to better risk stratification of individuals and/or the development of new intervention targets and treatment options. This review highlights emerging biomarkers related to lipid metabolism, glycemia, inflammation, and cardiac damage, some of which show promising associations with CVD risk and provide further understanding of the underlying pathophysiology. However, their measurement methodology and assays will require validation and standardization, and it will take time to accumulate evidence of their role in CVD in various population settings in order to fully assess their clinical utility. Several of the novel biomarkers represent intriguing, potentially game-changing targets for therapy.
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- Leah E Cahill
- Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, 5790 University Ave, Halifax, NS, B3H 1V7, Canada.
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 1309 Beacon Street, 2nd Floor, Brookline, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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Aroner SA, Rosner BA, Tamimi RM, Tworoger SS, Baur N, Joos TO, Hankinson SE. Plasma matrix metalloproteinase 2 levels and breast cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol 2015; 39:321-7. [PMID: 25799912 DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2015.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2014] [Revised: 02/19/2015] [Accepted: 02/22/2015] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP2) is an enzyme with important functions in breast cancer invasion and metastasis. However, it is unclear whether circulating MMP2 levels may predict breast cancer risk. We conducted a prospective nested case-control analysis in the Nurses' Health Study among 1136 cases who were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer between 1992 and 2004 and 1136 matched controls. All participants provided blood samples in 1989-1990, and a subset (170 cases, 170 controls) contributed an additional sample in 2000-2002. Pre-diagnostic plasma MMP2 levels were measured via immunoassay, and conditional logistic regression was performed to calculate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs), adjusted for breast cancer risk factors. No association was observed between plasma MMP2 levels and risk of total invasive breast cancer (top vs. bottom quartile, OR=1.0; 95% CI: 0.7, 1.2; p-trend=0.89). Findings did not vary significantly by time since blood draw, body mass index, postmenopausal hormone use, or menopausal status at either blood draw or breast cancer diagnosis. MMP2 was associated with a greater risk of nodal metastases at diagnosis (top vs. bottom quartile, OR=1.5; 95% CI: 1.0, 2.2; p-heterogeneity, any vs. no lymph nodes=0.002), but no significant associations were observed with other tumor characteristics or with recurrent or fatal cancers. Plasma MMP2 levels do not appear to be predictive of total invasive breast cancer risk, although associations with aggressive disease warrant further study.
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- Sarah A Aroner
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Natural and Medical Sciences Institute, University of Tuebingen, Reutlingen, Germany
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- Natural and Medical Sciences Institute, University of Tuebingen, Reutlingen, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
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Aroner SA, Rosner BA, Tamimi RM, Tworoger SS, Baur N, Joos TO, Hankinson SE. Plasma matrix metalloproteinase 1, 3, and 7 levels and breast cancer risk in the Nurses' Health study. Cancer Causes Control 2014; 25:1717-23. [PMID: 25225035 DOI: 10.1007/s10552-014-0462-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2014] [Accepted: 08/25/2014] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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PURPOSE Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), in particular MMP1, 3, and 7, are believed to be critical to breast cancer invasion and metastasis and also may have important functions earlier in breast carcinogenesis. However, the relationship between circulating levels of MMP1, 3, and 7 and breast cancer risk is uncertain. METHODS We examined associations between plasma MMP1, 3, and 7 and breast cancer risk in a prospective case-control study nested within the Nurses' Health Study. Blood samples were collected from 801 cases who developed breast cancer between 1992 and 2000 and 801 matched controls, and MMP levels were measured via immunofluorescence assay. RESULTS No overall association was observed between any of these MMPs and breast cancer risk [top vs. bottom quintile; MMP1: odds ratio (OR) 0.9; 95 % confidence interval (CI) 0.7, 1.3; p-trend = 0.51; MMP3: OR 1.1; 95 % CI 0.8, 1.5; p-trend = 0.88; MMP7: OR = 1.2; 95 % CI 0.8, 1.7; p-trend = 0.18]. Further, findings did not significantly vary by time since blood draw, body mass index, or postmenopausal hormone use, or by breast cancer subtypes. CONCLUSIONS Circulating MMP1, 3, and 7 levels do not appear to be predictive of overall breast cancer risk.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sarah A Aroner
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA,
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Aroner SA, Collins LC, Connolly JL, Colditz GA, Schnitt SJ, Rosner BA, Hankinson SE, Tamimi RM. Radial scars and subsequent breast cancer risk: results from the Nurses' Health Studies. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2013; 139:277-85. [PMID: 23609472 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-013-2535-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2013] [Accepted: 04/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Radial scars (RS) are benign proliferative lesions associated with an increased risk of subsequent breast cancer. However, it remains unclear whether RS are an independent risk factor for breast cancer or whether their association with breast cancer is due to their common occurrence with other proliferative lesions known to increase breast cancer risk. We performed an updated analysis of the association between RS and subsequent breast cancer risk in a nested case-control study among 460 cases and 1,792 controls with benign breast disease (BBD) in the Nurses' Health Studies. Logistic regression was used to estimate associations between RS in BBD biopsy specimens and breast cancer risk, adjusted for matching factors and breast cancer risk factors, including histologic category of concurrent BBD. In multivariable models prior to adjustment for histologic category of BBD, RS were associated with a twofold increased risk of breast cancer (odds ratio (OR) = 2.0; 95 % confidence interval (95 % CI) 1.4, 2.8). This association was attenuated but still significant after adjustment for BBD histologic category (OR = 1.6; 95 % CI 1.1, 2.3). In models adjusted for BBD histologic category and other covariates, risk appeared greater among women with multiple RS (1 RS, OR = 1.5; 95 % CI 0.9, 2.3; ≥2 RS, OR = 2.7; 95 % CI 1.5, 5.0; p-heterogeneity = 0.12). There were also suggestions of a greater risk associated with RS among women age ≥50 years at biopsy (p-heterogeneity = 0.07) and for estrogen receptor-negative/progesterone receptor-negative tumors compared with other hormone receptor subtypes (p-heterogeneity = 0.19). RS appear to be an independent histologic risk factor for breast cancer. Larger studies are needed to further evaluate whether risk is increased when multiple RS are present and whether associations vary by age at biopsy or by hormone receptor status of the breast tumor.
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- Sarah A Aroner
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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