Long-term Outcome in Levothyroxine Treated Patients with Subclinical Hypothyroidism and Concomitant Heart Disease: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &Metabolism, Early Release.
Mette Nygaard Andersen1, Anne-Marie Schjerning Olsen1, Jesper Clausager Madsen2, Søren Lund Kristensen1, Jens Faber3,4, Christian Torp-Pedersen5, Gunnar H Gislason1,4,6,7, and Christian Selmer8
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Department of Cardiology, Gentofte University Hospital, Kildegaardsvej 28, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark
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Abstract
Context:
Subclinical hypothyroidism is a common condition that may lead to impaired cardiac function.
Objective:
To examine the effects of levothyroxine treatment in patients with subclinical hypothyroidism and heart disease.
Design:
Register-based historical cohort study.
Setting and Participants:
Danish primary care patients and hospital outpatients aged 18 years and older with established heart disease who were diagnosed with subclinical hypothyroidism in 1997 – 2011. Patients were stratified according to whether or not they claimed a subsequent prescription of levothyroxine. Event rates and incidence rate ratios (IRR) were calculated by use of time-dependent multi-variable Poisson regression models.
Main Outcome Measures:
All-cause mortality, MACE (major adverse cardiac events) defined as cardiovascular death, fatal or non-fatal MI and stroke, and all-cause hospital admissions.
Results:
Of 61,611 patients with a diagnosis of cardiac disease having their first time thyroid function testing, 1,192 patients with subclinical hypothyroidism (mean age 73.6 [SD ± 13.3] years, 63.8% female) were included, of whom 136 (11.4%) were treated with levothyroxine. During a median follow-up time of 5.6 years (IQR 6.5), 694 (58.2%) patients died. Patients treated with levothyroxine displayed no significantly increased risk of all-cause mortality (adjusted IRR 1.17 [95% CI: 0.90–1.52]), MACE (adjusted IRR 1.08 [95% CI: 0.80–1.45]), or hospital admission (adjusted IRR 0.94 [95% CI: 0.71–1.24]), when compared to patients not treated with levothyroxine.
Conclusion:
Levothyroxine treatment in patients with subclinical hypothyroidism and heart disease was not associated with a significant benefit nor risk of all-cause mortality, MACE or hospital admission in this large real-world cohort study.
Affiliations
1Department of Cardiology, Gentofte University Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark;
2Elective Laboratory of the Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark;
3Department of Endocrinology, Herlev University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark;
4Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
5Department of Health Science and Technology, University of Aalborg, Denmark;
6The Danish Heart Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark;
7The National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark;
8Department of Endocrinology, Amager and Hvidovre University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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