Prevalence of lupus anticoagulant and anticardiolipin antibodies in a healthy population

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine
W ShiC N Chesterman

Abstract

This study was designed to explore the incidence of lupus anticoagulant (LA) and anticardiolipin antibodies (ACA) and their relationship to each other in a healthy population of 499 blood donors. Plasma samples were tested for LA activity and IgG, IgM and polyvalent ACA. Prolongation of the kaolin clotting time of a mixture of 80% normal plasma and 20% test plasma compared to the normal (dKCT) was used to detect LA activity. A normal distribution of dKCT was found with the mean 3.5 seconds +/- SD 10.6 seconds. Forty subjects (8%) were greater than 10% of the normal control; among these, 18 (3.6%) were outside the 95% confidence limits. The median age (29.3) and sex (M = 12, F = 28) of the 40 subjects with prolonged KCT were significantly different (p less than 0.001) from the group as a whole, younger females predominating. The frequency distribution of IgG, IgM and polyvalent ACA was skewed and the majority did not have detectable levels. ACA concentration falling within 95% of the population group were regarded as normal. Applying this definition, abnormal IgG ACA was greater than 4.33 U/ml, IgM ACA greater than 3.55 U/ml and polyvalent ACA greater than 4.55 U/ml with a prevalence of 4.6%, 4.6% and 5.6% respectively. Of the s...Continue Reading

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