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  • Title: Complex Influence of Gonadotropins and Sex Steroid Hormones on QT Interval Duration.
    Author: Abehsira G, Bachelot A, Badilini F, Koehl L, Lebot M, Favet C, Touraine P, Funck-Brentano C, Salem JE.
    Journal: J Clin Endocrinol Metab; 2016 Jul; 101(7):2776-84. PubMed ID: 27167057.
    Abstract:
    CONTEXT: QT interval duration is longer in women than in men. Sex steroid hormones have inconsistently been suggested to explain this difference. The implication of gonadotropins has never been studied. OBJECTIVE: We report here the combined influence of sex steroid hormones and gonadotropins on QT interval duration in healthy subjects and patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) as a model of T and progesterone overexpression. DESIGN AND PATIENTS: Eighty-four CAH patients (58 women) and 84 healthy subjects matched and paired for sex and age were prospectively included. Circulating concentrations of 17-OH-progesterone, progesterone, T, estradiol, FSH, and LH were measured concomitantly to the recording of a digitized electrocardiogram. RESULTS: QTcFridericia (QTcF) was shorter in women with CAH than in control women (404 ± 2 vs 413 ± 2.1 milliseconds; P ≤ .001). 17-OH-progesterone, progesterone, the progesterone/estradiol ratio, and total T were higher in women with CAH than in female controls (P < .05), whereas FSH was lower (P ≤ .05). According to multivariable analysis in all women, the progesterone/estradiol ratio (β = -0.33) and FSH levels (β = 0.34) were related to QTcF (r = 0.5; P < .0001), with no influence of CAH or healthy status. QTcF was not different between CAH (404.7 ± 3.7 milliseconds) or healthy men (396 ± 2.8 milliseconds). For men, QTcF (r = 0.48; P < .01) was negatively related to free T (β = -0.29) and positively to FSH levels (β = 0.34). CONCLUSION: Cardiac repolarization is influenced by complex interactions between sex steroid hormones and gonadotropins, depending on gender. Our results indicate that the progesterone/estradiol ratio in women, T in men, and FSH in both genders are major determinants of ventricular repolarization with opposite effects on QTc interval.
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