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Whole blood impedance platelet aggregometry and ischemic heart disease. The Caerphilly Collaborative Heart Disease Study

Elwood, Peter Creighton, Beswick, A. D., Sharp, D. S., Yarnell, J. W., Rogers, S. and Renaud, S. 1990. Whole blood impedance platelet aggregometry and ischemic heart disease. The Caerphilly Collaborative Heart Disease Study. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 10 (6) , pp. 1032-1036. 10.1161/01.ATV.10.6.1032

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Abstract

The Caerphilly Collaborative Heart Disease Study is based on a large cohort of men who were ages 49 to 64 years at the time of the study. We report the results for platelet aggregation measured in whole blood from a subsample of 308 men. The index of sensitivity used was the minimum concentration of adenosine diphosphate that produced a defined degree of impedance change in the Chronolog 560 aggregometer. There was a marked association between aggregation and prevalent ischemic heart disease (IHD). The odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for prevalent IHD in men with the most sensitive platelets compared with those with the least sensitive platelets were 3.6 (95% Cl: 1.1 to 12.2) for angina; 7.3 (95% Cl: 2.0 to 24.3) for previous myocardial infarction (MI); and 2.7 (95% Cl: 1.0 to 7.6) for electrocardiogram evidence of ischemia. The confidence limits for these odds ratios are large because of the small sample size, but the estimates of odds ratio are relatively large compared to similar relationships between the traditional risk factors of serum cholesterol, blood pressure, smoking, and prevalent IHD (1.5 to 2.5). A number of factors that might confound the relationships between platelets and IHD were examined, but the associations remained statistically significant when these were taken into account.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher: American Heart Association, Inc.
ISSN: 1079-5642
Last Modified: 10 Jun 2023 01:18
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/64609

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