The relationship of fibrinogen and factors VII and VIII to incident cardiovascular disease and death in the elderly: results from the cardiovascular health study.
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Little is known about the prospective associations of fibrinogen, factor VII, or factor VIII with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality in the elderly. At baseline in the Cardiovascular Health Study (5888 white and African American men and women; aged >/=65 years), we measured fibrinogen, factor VIII, and factor VII. We used sex-stratified stepwise Cox survival analysis to determine relative risks (RRs) for CVD events and all-cause mortality (up to 5 years of follow-up), both unadjusted and adjusted for CVD risk factors and subclinical CVD. After adjustment, comparing the fifth quintile to the first, fibrinogen was significantly associated in men with coronary heart disease events (RR=2.1) and stroke or transient ischemic attack (RR=1.3), and also with mortality within 2.5 years of follow-up (RR=5.8) and later (RR=1.7). Factor VIII was significantly associated in men with coronary heart disease events (RR=1.5) and mortality (RR=1.8), and in women with stroke/transient ischemic attack (RR=1.4). For both factors, values were higher in those who died, whether causes were CVD-related or non-CVD-related, but highest in CVD death. Factor VII exhibited associations with incident angina (RR=1.44) in men and with death in women (RR, middle quintile compared with first=0.66). However, in general, factor VII was not consistently associated with CVD events in this population. We conclude that, if confirmed in other studies, the measurement of fibrinogen and/or factor VIII may help identify older individuals at higher risk for CVD events and mortality.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology
دوره 19 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999