Aim of study was to examine experimentally the adult female hypertensive heart in order to determine the role of ovary function in the response of the heart to salt‐dependent hypertension. Dahl salt‐sensitive rats, age 12 weeks, with/without ovariectomy were fed a standard (0.3% NaCl) or high‐salt diet (8%) for 16 weeks. Mean arterial blood pressure monitored noninvasively in conscious state increased significantly by high salt. Echocardiography was performed at baseline and endpoint. Heart function and molecular changes were evaluated at endpoint by left ventricle catheterization, by sirius red staining for collagen and by gene expression using quantitative RT‐PCR for selected genes. At endpoint, significant concentric hypertrophy was present with high salt. Increase in relative wall thickening with high salt compared to normal diet was more pronounced with intact ovaries (0.33 ± 0.02 and 0.57 ± 0.04 vs. 0.29 ± 0.00 and 0.46 ± 0.03) as was the reduction in midwall fractional shortening (20 ± 0.6 and 14 ± 2 vs. 19 ± 0.9 and 18 ± 1). Ovariectomy increased stroke volume and decreased the ratio of mitral peak velocity of early filling (E) to early diastolic mitral annular velocity (E′) (E/E' ratio) when compared to hearts from intact rats. High salt increased expression of collagen I and III genes and perivascular collagen in the heart slightly, but % interstitial collagen by sirius red staining remained unchanged in intact rats and decreased significantly by ovariectomy. Added volume load but not deterioration of function or structure characterized the nonfailing hypertensive heart of salt‐sensitive females ovariectomized at mature age when compared to corresponding intact females.
Aims To explore sex-specific time trends in atrial fibrillation (AF) incidence and to estimate the impact of changes in risk factor levels using individual participant-level data from the population-based Tromsø Study 1994-2016. Methods and results A total of 14 818 women and 13 225 men aged 25 years or older without AF were enrolled in the Tromsø Study between 1994 and 2008 and followed up for incident AF throughout 2016. Poisson regression was used for statistical analyses. During follow-up, age-adjusted AF incidence rates in women decreased from 1.19 to 0.71 per 1000 person-years. In men, AF incidence increased from 1.18 to 2.82 per 1000 person-years in 2004, and then declined to 1.94 per 1000 person-years in 2016. Changes in systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), body mass index (BMI), physical activity, smoking and alcohol consumption together accounted for 10.9% (95% confidence interval [CI]: -2.4; 28.6) of the AF incidence decline in women and for 44.7% (95% CI: 19.2; 100.0) of the AF incidence increase in men. Reduction in SBP and DBP had the largest contribution to the decrease in AF incidence in women. Increase in BMI had the largest contribution to the increase in AF incidence in men. Conclusion In the population-based Tromsø Study 1994-2016, AF incidence decreased in women and increased following a reverse U-shape in men. Individual changes in SBP and DBP in women and individual changes in BMI in men were the most important risk factors contributing to the AF incidence trends.
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