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Common NOS1AP variants potentiate digoxin induced QT-shortening and risk of sudden cardiac death<br />

follow-up time of 10.4 (SD 3.7) years. Of these, 871 subjects used digoxin at any time during<br />

the study period. Baseline characteristics of the QTc and SCD study populations and of SCD<br />

cases are shown in Table 1.<br />

Genotypes and digoxin exposure. Genotype assessment of rs10494366 T>G and<br />

rs10918594 C>G was successful in 96.4% and 97.6%, minor allele frequencies were<br />

36.5% and 31.4% respectively. Both SNPs were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (p= 0.53 for<br />

rs10494366 and p=0.78 for rs10918594). Genotype frequencies in digoxin users did not significantly<br />

differ from non-users (p= 0.93 and p= 0.71 respectively).<br />

Mean digoxin dose was 0.61 DDD (SD 0.27) and did not significantly differ between genotype<br />

groups of ECGs taken while using digoxin, of those ever using digoxin in the <strong>to</strong>tal SCD sample<br />

or of SCD cases using digoxin on the index date.<br />

Figure 2 QTc difference in msec using by NOS1AP genotype and digoxin use<br />

15<br />

10<br />

5<br />

0<br />

QTc difference in msec<br />

-5<br />

-10<br />

-15<br />

-20<br />

No digoxin<br />

Digoxin<br />

-25<br />

-30<br />

-35<br />

TT TG GG<br />

QTc change in msec compared <strong>to</strong> persons with rs10494366 TT genotype without digoxin use (reference) adjusted for:<br />

age, sex, heart failure, myocardial infarction and diabetes mellitus at time of ECG (repeated measures analyses). Age,<br />

sex, heart failure, myocardial infarction and diabetes mellitus adjusted mean QTc for the reference group is 426msec.<br />

Vertical bars indicate 95% confidence intervals.<br />

95

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