Journal
ANNALS OF NONINVASIVE ELECTROCARDIOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 389-398Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/anec.12050
Keywords
QT; hormones
Categories
Funding
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes [N01-HV-68161, N01-HV-68162, N01-HV-68163, N01-HV-68164]
- GCRC from the National Center for Research Resources [MO1-RR00425]
- Gustavus and Louis Pfeiffer Research Foundation, Denville, New Jersey
- Women's Guild of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
- Edythe L. Broad Women's Heart Research Fellowship, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
- Barbra Streisand Women's Cardiovascular Research and Education Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Background: A prolonged corrected QT (QTc) interval is a marker for an increased risk of sudden cardiac death. We evaluated the relationship between oral contraceptive (OC) use, type of OC, and QTc interval. Methods: We identified 410,782 ECGs performed at Northern California Kaiser Permanente on female patients between 15 and 53 years from January, 1995 to June, 2008. QTwas corrected for heart rate using log-linear regression. OC generation (first, second and third) was classified by increasing progestin androgenic potency, while the fourth generation was classified as antiandrogenic. Results: Among 410,782 women, 8.4% were on OC. In multivariate analysis after correction for comorbidities, there was an independent shortening effect of OCs overall (slope = -0.5 ms; SE = 0.12, P < 0.0002). Users of first and second generation progestins had a significantly shorter QTc than nonusers (P < 0.0001), while users of fourth generation had a significantly longer QTc than nonusers (slope = 3.6 ms, SE = 0.35, P < 0.0001). Conclusion: Overall, OC use has a shortening effect on the QTc. Shorter QTc is seen with first and second generation OC while fourth generation OC use has a lengthening effect on the QTc. Careful examination of adverse event rates in fourth generation OC users is needed.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available