Janneke W.C.M. Mulder , Willemijn A.M. Schonck , Tycho R. Tromp , M. Doortje Reijman , Laurens F. Reeskamp , G. Kees Hovingh , Dirk J. Blom , Jeanine E. Roeters van Lennep
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Real-world family planning and pregnancy practices in women with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia
Background and aims
Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH) is characterized by extremely high plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and high premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk. During pregnancy LDL-C levels increase, while limited therapeutic options are available. This international study documented current approaches of healthcare professionals (HCPs) to family planning, pregnancy, and breastfeeding in HoFH.
Methods
An online HCP survey was distributed among the HoFH International Clinical Collaborators (HICC, NCT04815005). Responses were analyzed according to HCPs’ gender, medical specialty, country income status, and world region.
Results
In total, 87 HCPs (39.1 % women) from 48 countries participated (64.4 % practicing in high-income countries). Most HCPs (79.3 %) always discuss family planning with patients with HoFH. Most (72.4 %) recommend contraception, with intrauterine devices (50.8 %) and oral contraceptives (49.2 %) being most commonly recommended. One in three HCPs would advise against pregnancy if ASCVD risks were deemed too high. Except for lipoprotein apheresis and colesevelam, most HCPs would recommend discontinuing LLT during the conception, pregnancy, and breastfeeding periods. However, approximately 30 % advise continuation or reinitiation of statins and/or ezetimibe during pregnancy and breastfeeding despite labelled restrictions on use during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Nearly half (48.3 %) of HCPs would recommend that women with HoFH shorten the breastfeeding period to resume LLT earlier, with HCPs from high-income countries significantly more likely to do so (51.8 % vs. 41.9 %; p = 0.008).
Conclusions
This study highlights significant variability in the management of HoFH in women of childbearing age, especially concerning LLT use during conception, pregnancy, and breastfeeding. The findings underscore the need for further research to establish global evidence-based guidelines tailored to individual needs, to improve cardiovascular risk management and reproductive health outcomes for women with HoFH worldwide.
期刊介绍:
Atherosclerosis has an open access mirror journal Atherosclerosis: X, sharing the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review.
Atherosclerosis brings together, from all sources, papers concerned with investigation on atherosclerosis, its risk factors and clinical manifestations. Atherosclerosis covers basic and translational, clinical and population research approaches to arterial and vascular biology and disease, as well as their risk factors including: disturbances of lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, diabetes and hypertension, thrombosis, and inflammation. The Editors are interested in original or review papers dealing with the pathogenesis, environmental, genetic and epigenetic basis, diagnosis or treatment of atherosclerosis and related diseases as well as their risk factors.