W1 - CT core analytes on 6% subsample; Clinic CBC tests: Semi-annual core analytes on QC pools A and B
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Introduction/Intent
Subsample and core analytes were specified in the original WHI RFP.
All CT participants provided a blood sample at baseline and year 1. A 6% subsample of CT participants was randomly selected to provide additional blood samples at years 3, 6, and 9. This 6% subsample was adjusted as recruitment progressed to include a six-fold oversampling of racial/ethnic minority women while retaining a 6% subsampling in each Clinical Center. It selection also included a two-fold oversampling of HT (including HT and DM overlap) women (8.6%) as compared to DM-only women (4.3%).
A total of 4,546 participants were selected to be in this 6% subsample. The final numbers of the subsample women by racial/ethnic group and CT component are shown below. Note that the totals by race/ethnicity take into account the approximate 10-14% participants who are in both the HT and DM participants.
Native American | Asian/Pacific Islander | Hispanic | African American | White | Other | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
HT | 63 | 176 | 407 | 695 | 1,296 | 59 |
DM | 75 | 197 | 313 | 805 | 1,373 | 55 |
Total | 120 | 337 | 573 | 1,200 | 2,223 | 93 |
Each participant sample at each time point was tested for 20 ‘core analytes’. These include:
- Lipids: total cholesterol, HDL, HDL2, HDL3, LDL, triglyceride, apolipoprotein(a)
- Metabolic: glucose, insulin
- Coagulation Factors: Factor VII Ag (antigen), Factor VII C (clotting activity); fibrinogen
- Micronutrients: alpha-carotene, alpha-tocopherol, beta-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthine, gamma-tocopherol, lycopene, lutein+zeaxanthin, retinol
Results/Findings
Assay methodologies can be found here.
For summary data by analyte, see the 2005 progress report for a summary of core analyte values by baseline and years 1, 3, 6, and differences between baseline and years 1, 3, and 6 for HT and DM participants.
See publications: 204, 210, 222, 240, 273, 345, 347, 350, 447, 448, 449, 520, 521, 524, 866. WHI publications by study lists published WHI papers that have been generated by ancillary studies. A complete list of WHI papers is available in the Papers of this website.