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- Hansson, Jenny, et al.
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Use of snus and acute myocardial infarction: pooled analysis of eight prospective observational studies
- 2012
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Ingår i: European Journal of Epidemiology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1573-7284 .- 0393-2990. ; 27:10, s. 771-779
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The use of snus (also referred to as Scandinavian or Swedish moist smokeless tobacco), which is common in Sweden and increasing elsewhere, is receiving increasing attention since considered a tobacco smoke "potential reduction exposure product". Snus delivers a high dose of nicotine with possible hemodynamic effects, but its impact on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is uncertain. The aim of this study was to investigate whether snus use is associated with risk of and survival after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Data from eight prospective cohort studies set in Sweden was pooled and reanalysed. The relative risk of first time AMI and 28-day case-fatality was calculated for 130,361 men who never smoked. During 2,262,333 person-years of follow-up, 3,390 incident events of AMI were identified. Current snus use was not associated with risk of AMI (pooled multivariable hazard ratio 1.04, 95 % confidence interval 0.93 to 1.17). The short-term case fatality rate appeared increased in snus users (odds ratio 1.28, 95 % confidence interval 0.99 to 1.68). This study does not support any association between use of snus and development of AMI. Hence, toxic components other than nicotine appear implicated in the pathophysiology of smoking related ischemic heart disease. Case fatality after AMI is seemingly increased among snus users, but this relationship may be due to confounding by socioeconomic or life style factors.
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- Hergens, Maria-Pia, et al.
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Use of Scandinavian Moist Smokeless Tobacco (Snus) and the Risk of Atrial Fibrillation
- 2014
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Ingår i: Epidemiology. - 1044-3983 .- 1531-5487. ; 25:6, s. 872-876
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Snus is a smokeless tobacco product, widely used among Swedish men and increasingly so elsewhere. There is debate as to whether snus is an acceptable "harm-reduction" tobacco product. Since snus use delivers a dose of nicotine equivalent to cigarettes, and has been implicated in cardiac arrhythmia because of associations with sudden cardiovascular death, a relation with atrial fibrillation is plausible and important to investigate.METHODS:: To assess the relation between use of snus and risk of atrial fibrillation, we carried out a pooled analysis of 7 prospective Swedish cohort studies. In total, 274,882 men, recruited between 1978 and 2004, were followed via the National Patient Register for atrial fibrillation. Primary analyses were restricted to 127,907 never-smokers. Relative risks were estimated using Cox proportional hazard regression.RESULTS:: The prevalence of snus use was 25% among never-smokers. During follow-up, 3,069 cases of atrial fibrillation were identified. The pooled relative risk of atrial fibrillation was 1.07 (95% confidence interval = 0.97-1.19) in current snus users, compared with nonusers.CONCLUSION:: Findings from this large national pooling project indicate that snus use is unlikely to confer any important increase in risk of atrial fibrillation.
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- Hernestål Boman, Jenny, 1980-
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Fibrinolytic factors in relation to anthropometry and incident type 2 diabetes.
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Fibrinolytic imbalance is associated with cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. The longitudinal changes in the fibrinolytic factors tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) and tPA/PAI-1 complex have been inadequately studied in the general population and in relation to incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The measurements, questionnaires and blood samples prospectively collected in the World Health Organisation-project MONItoring trends and determinants in CArdiovascular disease (MONICA) and in the Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP) enable such studies. The samples have been stored since 1985, at the Northern Sweden Medical Research Biobank. However, it is unknown how these factors are affected by long-term storage.The aims of this thesis were to evaluate the effects of long-term storage on fibrinolytic factors, and to determine how these factors are related to incident T2DM, how these factors change over time and how these factors are related to changes in anthropometric measurements.Storage time was shown to have a negligible impact on plasma antigen levels of fibrinolytic factors. After adjustments for traditional diabetic and cardiovascular risk markers the fibrinolytic factors tPA, PAI-1 and tPA/PAI-1 complex were associated with incident T2DM. PAI-1 was associated with incident T2DM in subjects with normal fasting and 2-hour plasma glucose levels. In MONICA-Västerbotten, tPA, PAI-1 and tPA/PAI-1 complex increased over 9 years in both men and women. PAI-1 appears to interact in a complex manner with anthropometric, inflammatory, glycaemic and lipidemic measurements, but the pattern of components correlating with the changes in PAI-1 differed markedly between the sexes.In conclusion, PAI-1 is a potential risk marker of incident T2DM. PAI-1 increased markedly over nine years, but the pathophysiological background to these findings needs to be further investigated, separately for each sex.
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- Hernestål-Boman, Jenny, 1980-, et al.
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Individual changes in fibrinolytic factors, von Willebrand factor, and C-reactive protein over a nine-year period.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: Intra-individual changes in haemostatic factor concentrations over time are unknown, in the general population.Objective: To describe intra-individual longitudinal changes in tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), tPA/PAI-1 complex, von Willebrand factor (VWF), and C-reactive protein (CRP) over nine years, in different age groups, stratified for sex.Methods: The MONICA survey in 1990 examined randomly selected men and women in four age groups (25–64 years) who were re-examined in 1999. A total of 309 individuals donated venous blood samples in Stabilyte tubes for both surveys during the morning hours, after an overnight fast. We analysed tPA activity and antigens of tPA, PAI-1, tPA/PAI-1 complex, VWF, and CRP.Results: Over nine years, in both men and women, we found significant intra-individual increases in the antigen levels of tPA, PAI-1, tPA/PAI-1 complex, VWF, and CRP (P < 0.001). PAI-1 antigen levels increased by 75% for men and 95% for women. Compared to men, women had a significantly higher CRP increase (0.92 vs. 0.22 mg/L; P = 0.044). The P for trend for mean Δ1999–1990 across age groups showed a significant linear trend for VWF (P = 0.001 for men; P < 0.001 for women), but not for the other studied variables.Conclusions: There were intra-individual longitudinal increases in the antigen levels of tPA, PAI-1, tPA/PAI-1 complex, VWF, and CRP over nine years in both men and women, with PAI-1 showing the highest relative increase. VWF increased significantly across age groups; however, fibrinolytic variables did not.
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- Hernestål-Boman, Jenny, 1980-, et al.
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Individual PAI-1 increase over nine years relates differently in men and women to changes in anthropometric, glycaemic, inflammatory and lipid markers.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: Levels of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) is known to correlate to factors related to the metabolic syndrome. We have previously shown that PAI-1 antigen increased by 75% in men and 95% in women over nine years.Objective: The aim of this study was to explore relationships between intra-individual changes in PAI-1 and changes in anthropometric measurements, blood pressure, glycaemic, lipid and inflammatory markers, separately for men and women.Method: In northern Sweden, 125 men and 116 women were examined first in 1990 and re-examined in 1999 during the morning hours. Changes over time (Δ) were calculated as the value at 1999 minus the value at 1990.Results: In men, ΔPAI-1 was significantly correlated to ΔBMI (r =0.33), ΔCRP (r =0.25), Δtriglycerides (r =0.39), Δfasting plasma glucose (r =0.41) and Δ2-hour plasma glucose (r =0.29). In women, ΔPAI-1 was significantly correlated to ΔBMI (r =0.36), Δwaist circumference (r =0.38), Δhip circumference (r =0.27), ΔCRP (r =0.27) and Δtotal cholesterol (r =0.19). The multivariate linear regression analysis showed that ΔPAI-1 was significantly related to Δfasting plasma glucose and ΔCRP in men (R2 for the complete model was 0.31). In women, ΔPAI-1 was significantly related to Δwaist circumference (R2 for the complete model was 0.17).Conclusion: We expected that changes in anthropometric, glycaemic, inflammatory and lipid markers would explain a large part of the observed PAI-1 increase. However, the multivariate analysis explained only 20% of the variation in ΔPAI-1 in women and 30% in men. Interestingly, the patterns of components correlating with the changes in PAI-1 differed between sexes.
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- Hernestål-Boman, Jenny, et al.
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Long-term stability of fibrinolytic factors stored at-80 degrees C
- 2010
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Ingår i: Thrombosis Research. - : Elsevier BV. - 0049-3848 .- 1879-2472. ; 125:5, s. 451-456
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction: Blood samples in epidemiological studies are often stored for several years and analysed at different occasions. The reagent kits are continually modified for better precision and accuracy. Our hypothesis was that epidemiological studies are affected by long-term storage and/or modifications of reagent kits. Materials and Methods: Plasma samples stored at -80 degrees C from two populations were used: A case-referent study with samples collected from 1985 to 2000 and analysed 2005 (n=1598) were used to study influence of long-term storage. A cross-sectional study analysed 1990 (n=1558) and re-analysed 2001 (n=78) and 2005 (n=828) was used to study influence of reagent kit modifications. Fibrinolytic analyses included immunoassays of tPA, PAI-1 and tPA-PAI-1 complex and chromogenic substrate assays of the activities of tPA and PAI-1. Results: Long-term storage for a median time of 11.6 years (range 5 to 20) showed an effect of time on tPA antigen R-2=0.01, PAI-1 antigen R-2=0.01 and tPA-PAI-1 complex R-2=0.02. Modifications in reagent kits affected the levels of fibrinolytic factors; for tPA antigen the slope coefficients were between 0.72 and 0.95 (R-2 0.47-0.75), whereas tPA activity showed an agreement with slope coefficients 1.06 to 1.09 (R-2 0.67-0.93). Conclusions: This study showed that long-term storage affects fibrinolytic variables to a negligible extent, but modifications in reagent kits introduced an element of bias. We conclude that analysis of samples on a single occasion is preferable to multiple occasions, as storage has negligible effect. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Hultdin, Johan, et al.
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Elevated plasma homocysteine : cause or consequence of myocardial infarction?
- 2004
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Ingår i: Journal of Internal Medicine. - : Wiley. - 0954-6820 .- 1365-2796. ; 256:6, s. 491-498
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVES: To determine whether a first myocardial infarction leads to increased plasma homocysteine concentrations and whether the association between homocysteine and myocardial infarction was greater at follow-up compared with baseline. DESIGN: A population-based, prospective, nested case-referent study. SETTING: Screening took place at the nearest health survey centre in northern Sweden. SUBJECTS: Of more than 36,000 persons screened, 78 developed a first myocardial infarction (average 18 months after sampling). Fifty of these had participated in a follow-up health survey (average 8(1/2) years between surveys) and were sex- and age-matched with 56 referents. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Comparison of plasma homocysteine levels in case and referent subjects before and after development of a first myocardial infarction. RESULTS: No statistically significant difference was found between cases and referents regarding homocysteine at baseline or follow-up. Plasma homocysteine and plasma creatinine increased significantly, and plasma albumin decreased significantly over time. Conditional univariate logistic regression indicated that high homocysteine at follow-up but not baseline was associated with first myocardial infarction (OR 2.49; 95% CI: 1.03-6.02), but the relation disappeared in multivariate analyses including plasma creatinine and plasma albumin. High plasma creatinine remained associated with first myocardial infarction at both baseline (OR 2.94; 95% CI: 1.05-8.21) and follow-up (OR 3.38; 95% CI: 1.21-9.48). CONCLUSION: In this study, first myocardial infarction did not cause increased plasma homocysteine concentration.
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- Höglund, Henrik, et al.
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Prodromal symptoms and health care consumption prior to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in patients without previously known ischaemic heart disease
- 2014
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Ingår i: Resuscitation. - : Elsevier BV. - 0300-9572 .- 1873-1570. ; 85:7, s. 864-868
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims: To describe prodromal symptoms and health care consumption prior to an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in patients without previously known ischaemic heart disease (IHD). Background: The most common lethal event of cardiovascular disease is sudden cardiac death, and the majority occur outside hospital. Little is known about prodromal symptoms and health care consumption associated with OHCAs. Design: Case-crossover study. Methods: Medical records of 403 OHCA cases without previously known IHD, age 25-74 years in the MONICA myocardial registry in Norrbotten County 2000-2008, were reviewed. Presenting symptoms and emergency visits at public primary care facilities and internal medicine clinics in Norrbotten County were analyzed from the week prior to the OHCA and from the same week one year previously, which served as a control week. Unlike most studies we included unwitnessed arrests and those where no cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was attempted. Results: Emergency visits were more common during the week prior to the OHCA than during the control week, both for visits to primary care (29 vs. 6, p < 0.001) and to internal medicine clinics (16 vs. 0, p < 0.001). Symptoms were more prevalent during the week prior to the OHCA (36.7 vs. 6.7%, p < 0.001). The most prevalent symptoms were chest pain (14.6 vs. 0%, p < 0.001), gastrointestinal symptoms (7.7 vs. 1.2%, p < 0.001) and dyspnoea/peripheral oedema (6.9 vs. 0.2%, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Patients who suffer an OHCA seek health care and present prodromal symptoms significantly more often the week prior to the event than the same week one year earlier.
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