Lee Maxwell, Nguyen Britney, Jung Jinho, Razzak Eisa, Oluyemi Eniola T, McDonald Elizabeth S, Miles Randy C, Sadigh Gelareh, Carlos Ruth C
Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2024 Sep;33(9):1259-1266. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2024.0039. Epub 2024 Jul 8.
Allostatic load (AL) is the accumulation of physiological dysregulation attributed to repeated activation of the stress response over a lifetime. We assessed the utility of AL as a prognostic measure for high-risk benign breast biopsy pathology results. Eligible patients were women 18 years or older, with a false-positive outpatient breast biopsy between January and December 2022 at a tertiary academic health center. AL was calculated using 12 variables representing four physiological systems: cardiovascular (pulse rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein, and low-density lipoprotein); metabolic (body mass index, albumin, and hemoglobin A1C); renal (creatinine and estimated glomerular filtration rate); and immune (white blood cell count). Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess the association between AL before biopsy and breast biopsy outcomes controlling for patients' sociodemographics. In total, 170 women were included (mean age, 54.1 ± 12.9 years): 89.4% had benign and 10.6% had high-risk pathologies (radial scar/complex sclerosing lesion, atypical ductal or lobular hyperplasia, flat epithelial atypia, intraductal papilloma, or lobular carcinoma in-situ). A total of 56.5% were White, 24.7% Asian, and 17.1% other races. A total of 32.5% identified as Hispanic. The mean breast cancer risk score using the Tyrer-Cuzick model was 11.9 ± 7.0. In multivariable analysis, with every one unit increase in AL, the probability of high-risk pathology increased by 37% (odds ratio, 1.37; 95% confidence interval, 1.03, 1.81; = 0.03). No significant association was seen between high-risk pathology and age, ethnicity, breast cancer risk, or area deprivation index. Our findings support that increased AL, a biological marker of stress, is associated with high-risk pathology among patients with false-positive breast biopsy results.
应激负荷(AL)是指由于一生中应激反应的反复激活而导致的生理失调的累积。我们评估了AL作为高危良性乳腺活检病理结果预后指标的效用。符合条件的患者为18岁及以上的女性,于2022年1月至12月在一家三级学术健康中心进行了假阳性门诊乳腺活检。使用代表四个生理系统的12个变量计算AL:心血管系统(脉搏率、收缩压和舒张压、总胆固醇、高密度脂蛋白和低密度脂蛋白);代谢系统(体重指数、白蛋白和糖化血红蛋白A1C);肾脏系统(肌酐和估计肾小球滤过率);以及免疫系统(白细胞计数)。多变量逻辑回归用于评估活检前AL与乳腺活检结果之间的关联,并对患者的社会人口统计学特征进行控制。总共纳入了170名女性(平均年龄54.1±12.9岁):89.4%患有良性疾病,10.6%患有高危病理(放射状瘢痕/复杂性硬化性病变、非典型导管或小叶增生、扁平上皮异型增生、导管内乳头状瘤或小叶原位癌)。共有56.5%为白人,24.7%为亚洲人,17.1%为其他种族。共有32.5%的人被认定为西班牙裔。使用泰勒-库齐克模型的平均乳腺癌风险评分为11.9±7.0。在多变量分析中,AL每增加一个单位,高危病理的概率增加37%(比值比,1.37;95%置信区间,1.03,1.81;P = 0.03)。在高危病理与年龄、种族、乳腺癌风险或地区贫困指数之间未发现显著关联。我们的研究结果支持,应激的生物学标志物AL升高与乳腺活检结果为假阳性的患者中的高危病理相关。