Regional distribution of high-attenuation areas on chest computed tomography in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Autor: Bina Choi, Steven M. Kawut, Ganesh Raghu, Eric Hoffman, Russell Tracy, Purnema Madahar, Elana J. Bernstein, R. Graham Barr, David J. Lederer, Anna Podolanczuk
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: ERJ Open Research, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2312-0541
23120541
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00115-2019
Popis: High-attenuation areas (HAA) are a computed tomography-based quantitative measure of subclinical interstitial lung disease (ILD). We aimed to validate HAA in lung regions that are less subject to artefacts, such as extravascular lung water or dependent atelectasis. We examined the associations of HAA within six lung regions (basilar, non-basilar, peel, core, basilar peel, basilar core) with serum biomarkers of lung remodelling, forced vital capacity (FVC), visually-assessed interstitial lung abnormalities (ILA), and all-cause and ILD-specific mortality. We performed cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, a prospective cohort of 6814 adults aged 45–84 years without known cardiovascular disease who underwent cardiac computed tomography. Median regional HAA ranged from 3.8% in the peel to 4.8% in the basilar core. Doubling of regional HAA was associated with greater serum matrix metalloproteinase-7 (range 3.8% to 10.3%; p≤0.01), higher odds of ILA (OR 1.42 to 2.20; p≤0.03), and a higher risk of all-cause mortality (hazard ratio 1.20 to 1.47; p≤0.001). Doubling of regional HAA was associated with greater serum interleukin-6 (4.9% to 10.3%; p≤0.005) and higher risk of ILD-specific mortality (hazard ratio 3.30 to 3.98; p
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