Association of serum concentrations of remnant cholesterol with incident cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis : A real-world data from 2001 to 2022

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BACKGROUND: Remnant cholesterol (RC) promotes cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the general population, but its role among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients remains unknown. We aimed to investigate circulating RC levels associated with incident CVD among Chinese patients with RA.

METHODS: A total of 1018 RA patients free of baseline CVD were included and followed up in a prospective RA CVD cohort from 2001 to 2022. Fasting serum levels of triglycerides, total cholesterol (TC), low-density (LDL-C), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) were measured, while RC and Non-HDL-C levels were calculated. The primary exposure was RC levels. A LASSO Cox model was used to select covariates. The Fine-Gray competing risk model was used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs).

RESULTS: RA patients had a mean age of 53.9 years, and 802 (78.8%) were females. After a median follow-up of 5.54 years, 131 patients developed CVD with an incidence rate of 21.6 per 1000 person-years. Continuous and quartile-categorized RC levels were associated with incident CVD before and after multivariate adjustment and Bonferroni correction (all P < 0.001). There were no robust associations of other lipids with incident CVD. The fully adjusted HRs for RC were 2.30 (95% CI 1.58-3.35) per 1 mmol/L increase, and 2.40 (1.36-4.25) and 2.81 (1.60-4.94) for patients in the 3rd and 4th versus the 1st quartile, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: Circulating RC levels are positively associated with incident CVD among Chinese RA patients independent of known risk factors, implying its clinically preferable use for improving the stratification of CVD risk in RA patients.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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International journal of cardiology - (2024) vom: 07. März, Seite 131947

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zou, Yao-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Tao [VerfasserIn]
Li, Qian-Hua [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Jian-Da [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Ye [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Jian-Zi [VerfasserIn]
Jia, Pei-Wen [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Hu-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Jing-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Mo, Ying-Qian [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Lie [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiovascular disease
Incidence
Journal Article
Lipid profile
Remnant cholesterol
Rheumatoid arthritis

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Date Revised 19.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1016/j.ijcard.2024.131947

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NLM369481208