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T1 - Amyloid-beta (1-40) and the risk of death from cardiovascular causes in patients with coronary heart disease
AU - Stamatelopoulos, Kimon
AU - Sibbing, Dirk
AU - Rallidis, Loukianos S
AU - Georgiopoulos, Georgios
AU - Stakos, Dimitrios
AU - Braun, Siegmund
AU - Gatsiou, Aikaterini
AU - Sopova, Kateryna
AU - Kotakos, Christos
AU - Varounis, Christos
AU - Tellis, Constantinos C
AU - Kastritis, Efstathios
AU - Alevizaki, Maria
AU - Tselepis, Alexandros D
AU - Alexopoulos, Panagiotis
AU - Laske, Christoph
AU - Keller, Till
AU - Kastrati, Adnan
AU - Dimmeler, Stefanie
AU - Zeiher, Andreas M
AU - Stellos, Konstantinos
N1 - Copyright © 2015 American College of Cardiology Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/3/10
Y1 - 2015/3/10
N2 - BACKGROUND: The amyloid beta peptide is the major protein constituent of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer disease and appears to play a central role in vascular inflammation pathophysiology.OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine the clinical value of amyloid-beta 1-40 (Abeta40) measurement in predicting cardiovascular (CV) mortality in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and arterial stiffness progression in young healthy subjects.METHODS: Abeta40 was retrospectively measured in blood samples collected from 3 independent prospective cohorts and 2 case-control cohorts (total N = 1,464). Major adverse cardiac events (MACE) were assessed in the 2 prospective cohorts (n = 877) followed for a median of 4.4 years. To look at effects on subclinical disease, arterial stiffness was evaluated at baseline and after 5-year follow-up (n = 107) in young healthy subjects. The primary endpoint was the predictive value of Abeta40 for CV mortality and outcomes in patients with CHD.RESULTS: In Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for age, sex, estimated glomerular filtration rate, left ventricular ejection fraction, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, and high-sensitivity troponin T, Abeta40 independently predicted CV death and MACE in patients with CHD (p < 0.05 for all). After multivariate adjustment, Abeta40 levels conferred a substantial enhancement of net reclassification index and integrated discrimination improvement of individuals at risk in the total combined CHD cohort over the best predictive model. Further cohort-based analysis revealed that Abeta40 levels were significantly and independently associated with arterial stiffness progression, incident subclinical atherosclerosis, and incident CHD.CONCLUSIONS: Measuring blood levels of Abeta40 identified patients at high risk for CV death.
AB - BACKGROUND: The amyloid beta peptide is the major protein constituent of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer disease and appears to play a central role in vascular inflammation pathophysiology.OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine the clinical value of amyloid-beta 1-40 (Abeta40) measurement in predicting cardiovascular (CV) mortality in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and arterial stiffness progression in young healthy subjects.METHODS: Abeta40 was retrospectively measured in blood samples collected from 3 independent prospective cohorts and 2 case-control cohorts (total N = 1,464). Major adverse cardiac events (MACE) were assessed in the 2 prospective cohorts (n = 877) followed for a median of 4.4 years. To look at effects on subclinical disease, arterial stiffness was evaluated at baseline and after 5-year follow-up (n = 107) in young healthy subjects. The primary endpoint was the predictive value of Abeta40 for CV mortality and outcomes in patients with CHD.RESULTS: In Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for age, sex, estimated glomerular filtration rate, left ventricular ejection fraction, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, and high-sensitivity troponin T, Abeta40 independently predicted CV death and MACE in patients with CHD (p < 0.05 for all). After multivariate adjustment, Abeta40 levels conferred a substantial enhancement of net reclassification index and integrated discrimination improvement of individuals at risk in the total combined CHD cohort over the best predictive model. Further cohort-based analysis revealed that Abeta40 levels were significantly and independently associated with arterial stiffness progression, incident subclinical atherosclerosis, and incident CHD.CONCLUSIONS: Measuring blood levels of Abeta40 identified patients at high risk for CV death.
KW - Age Factors
KW - Aged
KW - Amyloid beta-Peptides/blood
KW - Ankle Brachial Index
KW - Biomarkers/blood
KW - C-Reactive Protein/analysis
KW - Carotid Intima-Media Thickness
KW - Cause of Death
KW - Coronary Disease/blood
KW - Female
KW - Follow-Up Studies
KW - Glomerular Filtration Rate
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Myocardial Infarction/blood
KW - Peptide Fragments/blood
KW - Plaque, Atherosclerotic
KW - Proportional Hazards Models
KW - Retrospective Studies
KW - Stroke Volume
KW - Troponin T/blood
KW - Vascular Stiffness
U2 - 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.12.035
DO - 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.12.035
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25744007
VL - 65
SP - 904
EP - 916
JO - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
JF - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
SN - 1558-3597
IS - 9
ER -