Prognostic value of VE/VCO2 slope in overweight heart failure patients

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BACKGROUND: A decreased hypercapnic ventilatory response of the overweight patients would lower the ventilation equivalent of carbon dioxide (VE/VCO2) slope but worsen prognosis. The aim of this study was to compare the prognostic ability of the VE/VCO2 slope and peak oxygen consumption (pVO2) between normal and overweight heart failure (HF) patients.

METHODS: Prospective evaluation of ambulatory patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction who underwent baseline assessment with a cardiopulmonary exercise test. The primary endpoint was cardiac death or urgent heart transplantation in the 5-year period of follow-up. The predictive power of VE/VCO2 slope and pVO2 were compared (area under the curve (AUC) analysis and Hanley & McNeil test), in the subgroups of patients with body mass index (BMI) of 18.5-24.9 kg/m2 and ≥ 25 kg/m2. Statistical differences with a p value < 0.05 were considered significant.

RESULTS: There were 270 enrolled patients, with a mean BMI of 27 ± 4 kg/m2. No differences between normal and overweight patients (38.0% vs 29.8%, P=0.170) were found during the 5-year period for the primary endpoint. The VE/VCO2 slope was non-inferior to pVO2 in both groups at 1, 3 and 5 years of follow-up. The comparison of VE/VCO2 slope between groups revealed a significant lower AUC at 3 (0.921 vs 0.787, P=0.022) and 5 years (0.898 vs 0.787, P=0.044) of follow-up for overweight patients.

CONCLUSION: Despite VE/VCO2 slope provides a discriminative power at least as good as pVO2 for predicting adverse events in both normal and overweight HF patients, a significant lower predictive power was found in overweight patients.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

American journal of cardiovascular disease - 10(2020), 5 vom: 06., Seite 578-584

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Valentim Goncalves, António [VerfasserIn]
Pereira-da-Silva, Tiago [VerfasserIn]
Soares, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Feliciano, Joana [VerfasserIn]
Abreu, Ana [VerfasserIn]
Rio, Pedro [VerfasserIn]
Moreira, Rita Ilhao [VerfasserIn]
Cruz Ferreira, Rui [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Heart failure
Journal Article
Overweight
Peak O2 consumption
VE/VCO2 slope

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 26.01.2021

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM320515621