Urine steroid metabolomics as a diagnostic tool in primary aldosteronism

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Primary aldosteronism (PA) causes 5-10% of hypertension cases, but only a minority of patients are currently diagnosed and treated because of a complex, stepwise, and partly invasive workup. We tested the performance of urine steroid metabolomics, the computational analysis of 24-hour urine steroid metabolome data by machine learning, for the identification and subtyping of PA. Mass spectrometry-based multi-steroid profiling was used to quantify the excretion of 34 steroid metabolites in 24-hour urine samples from 158 adults with PA (88 with unilateral PA [UPA] due to aldosterone-producing adenomas [APAs]; 70 with bilateral PA [BPA]) and 65 sex- and age-matched healthy controls. All APAs were resected and underwent targeted gene sequencing to detect somatic mutations associated with UPA. Patients with PA had increased urinary metabolite excretion of mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, and glucocorticoid precursors. Urine steroid metabolomics identified patients with PA with high accuracy, both when applied to all 34 or only the three most discriminative steroid metabolites (average areas under the receiver-operating characteristics curve [AUCs-ROC] 0.95-0.97). Whilst machine learning was suboptimal in differentiating UPA from BPA (average AUCs-ROC 0.65-0.73), it readily identified APA cases harbouring somatic KCNJ5 mutations (average AUCs-ROC 0.79-85). These patients showed a distinctly increased urine excretion of the hybrid steroid 18-hydroxycortisol and its metabolite 18-oxo-tetrahydrocortisol, the latter identified by machine learning as by far the most discriminative steroid. In conclusion, urine steroid metabolomics is a non-invasive candidate test for the accurate identification of PA cases and KCNJ5-mutated APAs.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:237

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The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology - 237(2024) vom: 16. März, Seite 106445

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Prete, Alessandro [VerfasserIn]
Lang, Katharina [VerfasserIn]
Pavlov, David [VerfasserIn]
Rhayem, Yara [VerfasserIn]
Sitch, Alice J [VerfasserIn]
Franke, Anna S [VerfasserIn]
Gilligan, Lorna C [VerfasserIn]
Shackleton, Cedric H L [VerfasserIn]
Hahner, Stefanie [VerfasserIn]
Quinkler, Marcus [VerfasserIn]
Dekkers, Tanja [VerfasserIn]
Deinum, Jaap [VerfasserIn]
Reincke, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Beuschlein, Felix [VerfasserIn]
Biehl, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Arlt, Wiebke [VerfasserIn]

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4964P6T9RB
Aldosterone
Aldosterone-producing adenoma
Bilateral primary aldosteronism
G Protein-Coupled Inwardly-Rectifying Potassium Channels
Hybrid steroids
Journal Article
KCNJ5
KCNJ5 protein, human
Primary aldosteronism
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Steroids
Urine steroid metabolome

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Date Completed 05.02.2024

Date Revised 20.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jsbmb.2023.106445

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NLM365954217