Carotid atherosclerosis and endothelial cell adhesion molecules as predictors of long-term outcome in chronic hemodialysis patients
| Autor: | Efstathios Alexopoulos, Christos Bantis, Michalis Kalovoulos, Georgios Efstratiadis, Spyros Dovas, Chrysostomos Dimitriadis, Anna-Maria Belechri, Dimitrios Memmos, Aikaterini Papagianni |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
Carotid atherosclerosis
Male medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 Disease End stage renal disease Renal Dialysis Internal medicine medicine Cell Adhesion Humans Chronic hemodialysis Cell adhesion Aged business.industry Endothelial Cells Middle Aged Atherosclerosis Prognosis Carotid Arteries Treatment Outcome Intima-media thickness Nephrology Cardiology Kidney Failure Chronic Female Hemodialysis business |
| Zdroj: | American journal of nephrology. 28(2) |
| ISSN: | 1421-9670 |
| Popis: | Background/Aims: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of increased morbidity and mortality for hemodialysis (HD) patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive values of carotid artery atherosclerotic lesions and endothelial adhesion molecule levels for long-term outcome in non-diabetic HD patients. Methods: 112 HD patients (60 male, mean age 59 years) consecutively entered the study. Atherosclerotic disease was assessed by measuring the mean and maximum intima-media thickness (IMT and IMTmax respectively) of the common carotid arteries using an ultrasound scanner. Circulating intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) levels were measured by ELISA. Patients were followed for the next 5 years and primary end points on follow-up were all-cause death, death from CVD causes and incidence of a CVD event. Results: Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that survival curves for all-cause mortality, CVD mortality and morbidity differed significantly between the upper and lower tertiles of baseline IMT (p = 0.002, p = 0.01 and p = 0.001 respectively) and IMTmax values (p = 0.0007, p = 0.006 and p = 0.0003 respectively), as well as ICAM-1 (p = 0.008, p = 0.003 and p = 0.02 respectively) and VCAM-1 levels (p = 0.004, p = 0.012 and p = 0.025 respectively). In non-adjusted analysis all-cause mortality and CVD mortality and morbidity were significantly associated with IMT (p = 0.003, p = 0.01 and p = 0.001 respectively) and IMTmax values (p = 0.001, p = 0.007 and p = 0.0007 respectively). After adjusting for other significant covariates, IMT values remained associated only with CVD morbidity (p = 0.03), while IMTmax were associated with both CVD mortality and morbidity (p = 0.03 and p = 0.01 respectively). All-cause mortality and CVD mortality and morbidity were also significantly associated with serum ICAM-1 (p = 0.004, p = 0.005 and p = 0.01 respectively) and VCAM-1 levels (p = 0.008, p = 0.02 and p = 0.03 respectively). After adjusting for the same covariates, the associations between ICAM-1 and all-cause mortality and CVD mortality and morbidity remained significant (p = 0.02, p = 0.01 and p = 0.02 respectively), while serum VCAM-1 levels were independently associated only with all-cause mortality (p = 0.02). Conclusions: In non-diabetic HD patients, carotid atherosclerosis and adhesion molecule levels are independent predictors of long-term clinical outcomes and may be useful surrogate markers for risk stratification in these patients. |
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