Bright I. Nwaru
Exogenous sex steroid hormones and asthma in females: protocol for a population-based retrospective cohort study using a UK primary care database
Nwaru, Bright I.; Simpson, Colin R.; Soyiri, Ireneous N.; Pillinger, Rebecca; Appiagyei, Francis; Ryan, Dermot; Critchley, Hilary; Price, David B.; Hawrylowicz, Catherine M.; Sheikh, Aziz
Authors
Colin R. Simpson
Dr Ireneous Soyiri I.N.Soyiri@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology
Rebecca Pillinger
Francis Appiagyei
Dermot Ryan
Hilary Critchley
David B. Price
Catherine M. Hawrylowicz
Aziz Sheikh
Abstract
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. Introduction Female sex steroid hormones have been implicated in sex-related differences in the development and clinical outcomes of asthma. The role of exogenous sex steroids, however, remains unclear. Our recent systematic review highlighted the lack of high-quality population-based studies investigating this subject. We aim to investigate whether the use of hormonal contraception and hormone replacement therapy (HRT), subtypes and route of administration are associated with asthma onset and clinical outcomes in reproductive age and perimenopausal/postmenopausal females. Methods and analysis Using the Optimum Patient Care Research Database (OPCRD), a national primary care database in the UK, we will construct a retrospective longitudinal cohort of reproductive age (16-45 years) and perimenopausal/postmenopausal (46-70 years) females. We will estimate the risk of new-onset asthma using Cox regression and multilevel modelling for repeated asthma outcomes, such as asthma attacks. We will adjust for confounding factors in all analyses. We will evaluate interactions between the use of exogenous sex hormones and body mass index and smoking by calculating the relative excess risk due to interaction and the attributable proportion due to interaction. With 90% power, we need 23 700 reproductive age females to detect a 20% reduction (risk ratio 0.8) in asthma attacks for use of any hormonal contraception and 6000 perimenopausal/postmenopausal females to detect a 40% (risk ratio 1.40) increased risk of asthma attacks for use of any HRT. Ethics and dissemination We have obtained approval (ADEPT1317) from the Anonymised Data Ethics and Protocol Transparency Committee which grants project-specific ethics approvals for the use of OPCRD data. Optimum Patient Care has an existing NHS Health Research Authority ethics approval for the use of OPCRD data for research (15/EM/150). We will present our findings at national and international scientific meetings and publish the results in international peer-reviewed journals. Trial registration number EUPAS22967.
Citation
Nwaru, B. I., Simpson, C. R., Soyiri, I. N., Pillinger, R., Appiagyei, F., Ryan, D., Critchley, H., Price, D. B., Hawrylowicz, C. M., & Sheikh, A. (2018). Exogenous sex steroid hormones and asthma in females: protocol for a population-based retrospective cohort study using a UK primary care database. BMJ open, 8(6), Article e020075. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020075
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 29, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 27, 2018 |
Publication Date | 2018-06 |
Deposit Date | May 15, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | May 17, 2019 |
Journal | BMJ Open |
Print ISSN | 2044-6055 |
Publisher | BMJ Publishing Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 6 |
Article Number | e020075 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020075 |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1740598 |
Publisher URL | https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/6/e020075 |
Contract Date | May 17, 2019 |
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