Association of adrenal steroids with metabolomic profiles in patients with primary and endocrine hypertension

Copyright © 2024 Knuchel, Erlic, Gruber, Amar, Larsen, Gimenez-Roqueplo, Mulatero, Tetti, Pecori, Pamporaki, Langton, Peitzsch, Ceccato, Prejbisz, Januszewicz, Adolf, Remde, Lenzini, Dennedy, Deinum, Jefferson, Blanchard, Zennaro, Eisenhofer and Beuschlein..

Introduction: Endocrine hypertension (EHT) due to pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma (PPGL), Cushing's syndrome (CS), or primary aldosteronism (PA) is linked to a variety of metabolic alterations and comorbidities. Accordingly, patients with EHT and primary hypertension (PHT) are characterized by distinct metabolic profiles. However, it remains unclear whether the metabolomic differences relate solely to the disease-defining hormonal parameters. Therefore, our objective was to study the association of disease defining hormonal excess and concomitant adrenal steroids with metabolomic alterations in patients with EHT.

Methods: Retrospective European multicenter study of 263 patients (mean age 49 years, 50% females; 58 PHT, 69 PPGL, 37 CS, 99 PA) in whom targeted metabolomic and adrenal steroid profiling was available. The association of 13 adrenal steroids with differences in 79 metabolites between PPGL, CS, PA and PHT was examined after correction for age, sex, BMI, and presence of diabetes mellitus.

Results: After adjustment for BMI and diabetes mellitus significant association between adrenal steroids and metabolites - 18 in PPGL, 15 in CS, and 23 in PA - were revealed. In PPGL, the majority of metabolite associations were linked to catecholamine excess, whereas in PA, only one metabolite was associated with aldosterone. In contrast, cortisone (16 metabolites), cortisol (6 metabolites), and DHEA (8 metabolites) had the highest number of associated metabolites in PA. In CS, 18-hydroxycortisol significantly influenced 5 metabolites, cortisol affected 4, and cortisone, 11-deoxycortisol, and DHEA each were linked to 3 metabolites.

Discussions: Our study indicates cortisol, cortisone, and catecholamine excess are significantly associated with metabolomic variances in EHT versus PHT patients. Notably, catecholamine excess is key to PPGL's metabolomic changes, whereas in PA, other non-defining adrenal steroids mainly account for metabolomic differences. In CS, cortisol, alongside other non-defining adrenal hormones, contributes to these differences, suggesting that metabolic disorders and cardiovascular morbidity in these conditions could also be affected by various adrenal steroids.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in endocrinology - 15(2024) vom: 18., Seite 1370525

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Knuchel, Robin [VerfasserIn]
Erlic, Zoran [VerfasserIn]
Gruber, Sven [VerfasserIn]
Amar, Laurence [VerfasserIn]
Larsen, Casper K [VerfasserIn]
Gimenez-Roqueplo, Anne-Paule [VerfasserIn]
Mulatero, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
Tetti, Martina [VerfasserIn]
Pecori, Alessio [VerfasserIn]
Pamporaki, Christina [VerfasserIn]
Langton, Katharina [VerfasserIn]
Peitzsch, Mirko [VerfasserIn]
Ceccato, Filippo [VerfasserIn]
Prejbisz, Aleksander [VerfasserIn]
Januszewicz, Andrzej [VerfasserIn]
Adolf, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Remde, Hanna [VerfasserIn]
Lenzini, Livia [VerfasserIn]
Dennedy, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Deinum, Jaap [VerfasserIn]
Jefferson, Emily [VerfasserIn]
Blanchard, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Zennaro, Maria-Christina [VerfasserIn]
Eisenhofer, Graeme [VerfasserIn]
Beuschlein, Felix [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

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Adrenal steroids
Catecholamines
Cortisone
Cushing’s syndrome
Dehydroepiandrosterone
Endocrine hypertension
Hydrocortisone
Journal Article
Metabolomics
Multicenter Study
Pheochromocytoma
Primary aldosteronism
Primary hypertension
Steroids
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Date Completed 11.04.2024

Date Revised 11.04.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fendo.2024.1370525

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NLM370855531