Rate of caffeine metabolism and risk of spontaneous abortion

American Journal of Epidemiology
L FensterN L Benowitz

Abstract

In a case-control study of 73 women with and 141 women without spontaneous abortion, the authors determined the activity of the three principal caffeine-metabolizing enzymes--cytochrome P-4501A2 (CYP1A2), xanthine oxidase, and N-acetyltransferase 2--by measuring levels of caffeine metabolites in urine. After examining the effect of enzyme activity and different levels of caffeine intake, they concluded that there was no evidence that an interaction between enzyme activity and caffeine intake during pregnancy resulted in risk of spontaneous abortion. In a subsample comparing 24 cases with recurrent (two or more) spontaneous abortions and 21 controls with two or more livebirths and no previous spontaneous abortions, the unadjusted odds ratio for low CYP1A2 enzyme activity (below the median) was 0.92 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.28-3.04) compared with higher CYP1A2 activity. The odds ratio for risk of recurrent spontaneous abortion and low xanthine oxidase activity (below the median) versus higher activity was 0.37 (95% CI 0.10-1.29). Phenotypically slow acetylators (N-acetyltransferase 2 index <0.37) had an odds ratio of 1.58 (95% CI 0.48-5.13) for recurrent loss compared with rapid acetylators. Thus, some association of the l...Continue Reading

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