Sex Differences in Coronary Inflammation and Atherosclerosis Phenotypes in Response to Imaging Marker of Stress-Related Neural Activity

BACKGROUND: Sex-specific differences in coronary phenotypes in response to stress have not been elucidated. This study investigated the sex-specific differences in the coronary computed tomography angiography-assessed coronary response to mental stress.

METHODS: This retrospective study included patients with coronary artery disease and without cancer who underwent resting 18F-fluorodexoyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography and coronary computed tomography angiography within 3 months. 18F-flourodeoxyglucose resting amygdalar uptake, an imaging biomarker of stress-related neural activity, coronary inflammation (fat attenuation index), and high-risk plaque characteristics were assessed by coronary computed tomography angiography. Their correlation and prognostic values were assessed according to sex.

RESULTS: A total of 364 participants (27.7% women and 72.3% men) were enrolled. Among those with heightened stress-related neural activity, women were more likely to have a higher fat attenuation index (43.0% versus 24.0%; P=0.004), while men had a higher frequency of high-risk plaques (53.7% versus 39.3%; P=0.036). High amygdalar 18F-flourodeoxyglucose uptake (B-coefficient [SE], 3.62 [0.21]; P<0.001) was selected as the strongest predictor of fat attenuation index in a fully adjusted linear regression model in women, and the first-order interaction term consisting of sex and stress-related neural activity was significant (P<0.001). Those with enhanced imaging biomarkers of stress-related neural activity showed increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular event both in women (24.5% versus 5.1%; adjusted hazard ratio, 3.62 [95% CI, 1.14-17.14]; P=0.039) and men (17.2% versus 6.9%; adjusted hazard ratio, 2.72 [95% CI, 1.10-6.69]; P=0.030).

CONCLUSIONS: Imaging-assessed stress-related neural activity carried prognostic values irrespective of sex; however, a sex-specific mechanism linking psychological stress to coronary plaque phenotypes existed in the current hypothesis-generating study.

REGISTRATION: URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov; Unique identifier: NCT05545618.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2024 Feb;17(2):e016525. - PMID 38377232

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging - 17(2024), 2 vom: 15. Feb., Seite e016057

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dai, Neng [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Xianglin [VerfasserIn]
Weng, Xinyu [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Haidong [VerfasserIn]
Zhuang, Jianhui [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Guangjie [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Fan [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Ping [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Bao [VerfasserIn]
Duan, Shaofeng [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Yongfu [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Weifeng [VerfasserIn]
Ju, Zhiguo [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Longjiang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Zhenguang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yuetao [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Bin [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Hongcheng [VerfasserIn]
Qian, Juying [VerfasserIn]
Ge, Junbo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biomarkers
Clinical Study
Computed tomography angiography
Coronary artery disease
Female
Inflammation
Journal Article
Positron emission tomography computed tomography
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 22.02.2024

Date Revised 28.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05545618

CommentIn: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2024 Feb;17(2):e016525. - PMID 38377232

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.123.016057

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368672948