Investigation of mindin levels in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy and QRS fragmentation on electrocardiography

PURPOSE: Mindin was associated with diabetic nephropathy, podocyte injury, colitis, allergic asthma, liver ischaemia and reperpusion injury and ischaemic brain injury. On the other hand, it was reported as a protective factor against obesity, cardiac hypertrophy, fibrosis and remodelling. Fragmented QRS complexes (fQRS) are markers of altered ventricular depolarisation owing to a prior myocardial scar and fibrosis. In this study, we aimed to investigate mindin levels in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy and fQRS on electrocardiography.

METHODS: This observational case-control study enrolled 70 (36 female) hypertensive patients with fQRS and 38 (23 female) hypertensive control patients. All patients were evaluated by transthoracic echocardiography. Mindin levels were measured by the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Clinical, echocardiographic and laboratory data were compared between patient and control groups.

RESULTS: There was no significant difference between patient and control groups in terms of clinical, echocardiographic and routine laboratory parameters. The mindin levels were significantly higher in the patient group than controls (11.3 (7.21-19.31) vs 4.15 (2.86-6.34); p < .001). Multiple logistic regression analyses defined increased mindin levels as an independent predictor for the presence of fQRS (Odds ratio: 1.733; p = .034). Mindin levels >6.74 predicted the presence of fQRS with a sensitifity of 84.3% and specificity of 79.9% on receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis (The area under the curve:0.889; Confidence Interval: 0.827-0.951; p < .001).

CONCLUSION: Mindin expressin is upregulated in hypertensive patients with fQRS complexes. In contrary to previous studies, increased mindin levels may be associated with myocardial fibrosis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:73

Enthalten in:

Acta cardiologica - 73(2018), 6 vom: 19. Dez., Seite 544-549

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Doğan, Tolga [VerfasserIn]
Yetim, Mucahit [VerfasserIn]
Çelik, Oğuzhan [VerfasserIn]
Kalçık, Macit [VerfasserIn]
Özcan, Oğuzhan [VerfasserIn]
Doğan, İbrahim [VerfasserIn]
Erenler, Ali Kemal [VerfasserIn]
Bekar, Lütfü [VerfasserIn]
Karavelioğlu, Yusuf [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biomarkers
Echocardiography
Extracellular Matrix Proteins
Fibrosis
Fragmented QRS
Journal Article
Left ventricular hypertrophy
Mindin
Observational Study

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 15.08.2019

Date Revised 15.08.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/00015385.2017.1418616

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM279297084