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Published on: August 13, 2019
Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor, Activated Protein C Resistance, and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Due To Combined
Karen C Johnson1, Aaron K Aragaki2, Rebecca Jackson2
1From the Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN (K.C.J.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA (A.K.A., A.R.); Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH (R.J.); Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway (P.M.S., A.E.A.D.); Maastrich University, Maastrich, The Netherlands (J.R.); University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands (F.R.); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA (J.E.M.); George Washington University, Washington, DC (L.W.M.); Brown University, Providence, RI (S.L.); University of Pittsburgh, PA (L.H.K.); University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (M.C.); and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD (J.E.R.). kjohnson@uthsc.edu.
Objective:
To examine whether tissue factor pathway inhibitor or acquired activated protein C (APC) resistance influences the increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) due to estrogen plus progestin therapy.
Approach And Results:
Prospective nested case-control study of 205 cases of CHD and 481 matched controls in the Women's Health Initiative randomized trial of estrogen plus progestin therapy. After multivariable covariate adjustment, both baseline tissue factor pathway activity (P=0.01) and APC resistance (P=0.004) were associated positively with CHD risk. Baseline tissue factor pathway activity and APC resistance singly or jointly did not significantly modify the effect of estrogen plus progestin on CHD risk. Compared with placebo, estrogen plus progestin decreased tissue factor pathway inhibitor activity and increased APC resistance but these changes did not seem to modify or mediate the effect of estrogen plus progestin on CHD risk.
Conclusions:
Tissue factor pathway inhibitor activity and APC resistance are related to CHD risk in women, but may not explain the increased CHD risk due to estrogen plus progestin therapy. The data from this study do not support the clinical use of measuring these hemostatic factors to help stratify risk before hormone therapy.
Clinical Trial Registration:
URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00000611.
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