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ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2017

Association Between High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I and Cardiac Events in Elderly Women.

Joshua R Lewis, Wai H Lim, Germaine Wong, Samuel Abbs, Kun Zhu, Ee M Lim, Peter L Thompson, Richard L Prince

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Article in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Joshua R LewisSir Charles Gairdner Hospital Unit, University of Western Australia School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Perth, Australia joshua.lewis@sydney.edu.au.
Wai H LimSir Charles Gairdner Hospital Unit, University of Western Australia School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Perth, Australia.
Germaine WongCentre for Kidney Research, Children's Hospital at Westmead School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Samuel AbbsPathWest, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia.
Kun ZhuSir Charles Gairdner Hospital Unit, University of Western Australia School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Perth, Australia.
Ee M LimDepartment of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia.
Peter L ThompsonDepartment of Cardiology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia.
Richard L PrinceSir Charles Gairdner Hospital Unit, University of Western Australia School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Perth, Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundElderly women are at high risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and heart failure. High-sensitivity assays allow detection of cardiac troponin I (hsTnI) well below diagnostic cutoffs for acute coronary syndrome. We investigated the association between these levels with future cardiac events in community-based ambulant white women aged over 70 years initially recruited for a 5-year randomized, controlled trial of calcium supplements. METHODS AND

resultsThis was a prospective study of 1081 elderly women without clinical CHD at baseline (1998) or hsTnI above the diagnostic cutoffs for acute coronary syndrome with 14.5-year follow-up hospitalization and mortality (events). Two hundred forty-three (22%) women had CHD events, 163 (15%) myocardial infarction or CHD death (hard CHD), and 109 (10%) heart failure. In 99.6% of available serum samples, hsTnI was above the level of detection (median, 4.5 ng/L; interquartile range, 3.6-5.8). After adjusting for Framingham risk factors, each SD natural log-transformed hsTnI increase was associated with an increased hazard for CHD (hazard ratio, 1.34; 95% CI, 1.18-1.53;

conclusionsCardiac troponin I is independently associated with future cardiac events in elderly women without apparent clinical manifestations. The addition of cardiac troponin I to conventional risk factors may modestly improve risk prediction in this setting.

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