Cigarette smoking and urinary excretion of markers for platelet/vessel wall interaction in healthy women

• Published in: Clinical science (1979) Vol. 81; no. 1; pp. 11 - 15
• Main Authors: RANGEMARK, C, WENNMALM, A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Portland Press 01.07.1991
• Subjects: 6-Ketoprostaglandin F1 alpha - analogs & derivatives; 6-Ketoprostaglandin F1 alpha - urine; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Biomarkers - urine; Blood Platelets - metabolism; Blood Platelets - physiology; Blood Vessels - metabolism; Female; Humans; Investigative techniques of hemodynamics; Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects); Medical sciences; Menstruation - urine; Middle Aged; Platelet Activation - physiology; Smoking - adverse effects; Smoking - urine; Thromboxane B2 - analogs & derivatives; Thromboxane B2 - urine; Human; Vasomotricity; Platelet function; Sex; Tobacco smoking; Adult; Exploration; Female; Hemodynamics; Comparative study
• ISSN: 0143-5221; 1470-8736
• DOI: 10.1042/cs0810011

1. Cigarette smoking is known to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in both men and women. Experimental and epidemiological studies have demonstrated that cigarette smoking is associated with several indices of increased platelet activation and platelet/vessel wall interaction in men. The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that cigarette smoking is linked to an increased platelet activity in women also. 2. In 26 healthy smoking and non-smoking women (age 21-49 years) the urinary excretion of the thromboxane A2 metabolite 2,3-dinor-thromboxane B2 (an index of platelet activation) and of the prostacyclin metabolite 2,3-dinor-6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha (an index of platelet/vessel wall interaction) were analysed by g.c.-m.s. in samples collected on days 3, 10 and 20 of their respective menstrual cycles. 3. The urinary excretion of 2,3-dinor-thromboxane B2 did not vary significantly during the menstrual cycle, either in the smokers or in the non-smokers. It was consistently higher (P less than 0.004) in the group of smokers (average of day 3, 10 and 20, 395 +/- 61 pg/mg of creatinine; mean +/- SEM) than in the group of non-smokers (average 188 +/- 22 pg/mg of creatinine). 4. The urinary excretion of 2,3-dinor-6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha did not differ between the groups on any of the days studied (average on days 3, 10 and 20 in the smokers and non-smokers was 281 +/- 50 and 227 +/- 30 pg/mg of creatinine, respectively.