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Inverse Association between Plasma Phylloquinone and Risk of Ischemic Stroke in Chinese Adults with Hypertension and
Yaping Wei1, Zhuo Wang1, Qiangqiang He2,3
1Key Laboratory of Precision Nutrition and Food Quality, Ministry of Education, Department of Nutrition and Health, College of Food Sciences and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Background:
Evidence on the association between phylloquinone status and cardiovascular diseases is scarce and conflicting. These inconsistencies may be due to differences in individual characteristics of the study populations, which may modify the association.
Objective:
This study aimed to evaluate the association between plasma phylloquinone and the risk of first total stroke and its subtypes, and to examine potential effect modifications by BMI in patients with hypertension.
Methods:
We performed a nested case-control study including 604 first stroke cases and 604 matched controls. The mean age was 62.2 y (range, 45 to 75). Lower BMI was defined as <25 kg/m2 and higher BMI was defined as ≥25 kg/m2. The risks of the first stroke were estimated by ORs and 95% CIs using conditional logistic regression. The primary outcome was total stroke or ischemic stroke.
Results:
The relation between log-transformed phylloquinone concentration and stroke or ischemic stroke was modified by BMI. Higher phylloquinone concentrations were associated with lower stroke risk in those with a higher BMI. When plasma phylloquinone was assessed as tertiles, the adjusted ORs of first stroke and ischemic stroke for participants with a high BMI in tertile 2-3 were 0.70 (95% CI: 0.46, 1.08) and 0.57 (95% CI: 0.35, 0.92) compared with those in tertile 1, respectively. However, there was no significant association between plasma phylloquinone and risk of first total stroke or ischemic stroke for those with a lower BMI. Patients with a higher BMI and lower phylloquinone concentrations had the highest risk of ischemic stroke and showed a statistically significant difference compared with the reference group with a lower BMI and higher phylloquinone (OR = 1.80, 95% CI: 1.06, 3.10; P-interaction: 0.017).
Conclusions:
In Chinese patients with hypertension, there was an inverse association between baseline plasma phylloquinone and risk of first ischemic stroke among those with a higher BMI. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT00794885.
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