Bilirubin Is Inversely Associated With Cardiovascular Disease Among HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Individuals in VACS (Veterans Aging Cohort Study).

Autor: Marconi VC; Atlanta VA Medical Center, Atlanta, GA vcmarco@emory.edu.; Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.; Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA., Duncan MS; Division of Cardiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN., So-Armah K; Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA., Re VL 3rd; University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA., Lim JK; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT., Butt AA; Weill Cornell Medical College, Mars, PA.; Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA., Goetz MB; Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, Los Angeles, CA.; David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA., Rodriguez-Barradas MC; Michael E. DeBakey VAMC and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX., Alcorn CW; University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA.; Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA., Lennox J; Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA., Beckman JA; Division of Cardiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN., Justice A; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.; Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT., Freiberg M; Division of Cardiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.; Tennessee Valley Health Care System Nashville VA, Nashville, TN.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of the American Heart Association [J Am Heart Assoc] 2018 May 02; Vol. 7 (10). Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 May 02.
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.117.007792
Abstrakt: Background: Bilirubin may protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD) by reducing oxidative stress. Whether elevated bilirubin reduces the risk of CVD events among HIV + individuals and if this differs from uninfected individuals remain unclear. We assessed whether bilirubin independently predicted the risk of CVD events among HIV + and uninfected participants in VACS (Veterans Aging Cohort Study).
Methods and Results: We conducted a prospective cohort study using VACS participants free of baseline CVD. Total bilirubin was categorized by quartiles. CVD as well as acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and ischemic stroke events were assessed. Cox regression was used to evaluate hazard ratios of outcomes associated with quartiles of total bilirubin in HIV + and uninfected people after adjusting for multiple risk factors. There were 96 381 participants (30 427 HIV + ); mean age was 48 years, 48% were black, and 97% were men. There were 6603 total incident CVD events over a mean of 5.7 years. In adjusted models, increasing quartiles of baseline total bilirubin were associated with decreased hazards of all outcomes (hazard ratio, 0.86; 95% confidence interval, 0.80-0.91). Among HIV + participants, results persisted for heart failure, ischemic stroke, and total CVD, but nonsignificant associations were observed for acute myocardial infarction.
Conclusions: VACS participants (regardless of HIV status) with elevated bilirubin levels had a lower risk of incident total CVD, acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and ischemic stroke events after adjusting for known risk factors. Future studies should investigate how this apparently protective effect of elevated bilirubin could be harnessed to reduce CVD risk or improve risk estimation among HIV + individuals.
(© 2018 The Authors. Published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wiley.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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