Decreased circulating dipeptidyl peptidase-4 enzyme activity is prognostic for severe outcomes in COVID-19 inpatients

Aim: To investigate the serum circulating DPP4 activity in patients with COVID-19 disease. Materials & methods: Serum samples from 102 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and 43 post-COVID-19 plasma donors and 39 SARS-CoV-2 naive controls and their medical data were used. Circulating DPP4 activities according to different COVID-19 disease peak severity (WHO) groups at sampling and at peak were assessed. Results: A significant decrease (p < 0.0001) in serum DPP4 activity was found in study groups of higher disease severity. When the circulating DPP4 activity was assessed as a prognostic marker, the logistic regression (p = 0.0023) indicated that the enzyme activity is a predictor of mortality (median 9.5 days before death) with receiver operating characteristic area under the curves of 73.33% (p[area = 0.5] < 0.0001) as single predictor and 83.45% (p[area = 0.5] < 0.0001) in combination with age among hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Conclusion: Decreased circulating DPP4 activity is associated with severe COVID-19 disease and is a strong prognostic biomarker of mortality.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Biomarkers in medicine - 16(2022), 5 vom: 23. Apr., Seite 317-330

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nádasdi, Ákos [VerfasserIn]
Sinkovits, György [VerfasserIn]
Bobek, Ilona [VerfasserIn]
Lakatos, Botond [VerfasserIn]
Förhécz, Zsolt [VerfasserIn]
Prohászka, Zita Z [VerfasserIn]
Réti, Marienn [VerfasserIn]
Arató, Miklós [VerfasserIn]
Cseh, Gellért [VerfasserIn]
Masszi, Tamás [VerfasserIn]
Merkely, Béla [VerfasserIn]
Ferdinandy, Péter [VerfasserIn]
Vályi-Nagy, István [VerfasserIn]
Prohászka, Zoltán [VerfasserIn]
Firneisz, Gábor [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9007-41-4
Biomarkers
C-Reactive Protein
COVID-19
Circulating DPP4 activity
DPP4
DPP4 protein, human
Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4
Disease severity
EC 3.4.14.5
Interleukin-6
Journal Article
Mortality
Observational Study
Prognostic biomarker
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SARS-CoV-2
T2DM

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Date Completed 30.03.2022

Date Revised 30.03.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2217/bmm-2021-0717

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM337266964