Abstract
Objective: Vasomotor symptom s(VMS) may be a marker of cardiovascular risk. We aimed to evaluate the cross-sectional association of VMS presence and severity with hemostatic parameter levels measured at baseline among Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Hormone Therapy trial postmenopausal participants.
Methods: This cross-sectional analysis included 2,148 postmenopausal women with measures of VMS presence and severity reported in the 4 weeks before WHI baseline, who were not using warfarin or hormone therapy and for whom the following baseline hemostatic parameters were measured within the WHI Cardiovascular Disease Biomarker Case-Control Study: antithrombin, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, protein C antigen, total and free protein S antigen, total and free tissue factor pathway inhibitor, D-dimer, normalized activated protein C sensitivity ratio, and thrombin generation. Using multiple linear regression, we estimated the adjusted average difference in each hemostatic parameter associated with VMS presence and severity. A multiple comparisons-corrected P value was computed using the P-min procedure to determine statistical significance of our smallest observed P value.
Results: Women were 67 years of age on average and 33% reported VMS presence at baseline. There was some suggestion that VMS presence may be associated with a -0.34 adjusted difference in normalized activated protein C sensitivity ratio compared with no VMS (95% CI, -0.60 to -0.087; P = 0.009), but this association was not significant after correction for multiple comparisons (P = 0.073). VMS presence or severity was not significantly associated with the other hemostatic parameters.
Conclusions: We found no convincing evidence that VMS presence or severity was associated with levels of hemostatic parameters among postmenopausal women.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 360-370 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Menopause-The Journal of the North American Menopause Society |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2017 |
Keywords
- Epidemiology
- Hemostasis
- Hot flashes
- Menopause
- HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY
- ACTIVATED PROTEIN-C
- RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL
- FACTOR PATHWAY INHIBITOR
- CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE
- MENOPAUSAL TRANSITION
- THROMBIN GENERATION
- VENOUS THROMBOSIS
- HOT FLASHES
- HEALTH