A 6-Month Follow-Up Study of the Relation between Apolipoprotein E Gene Polymorphism and Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome

Cardiology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
Jinggang Xia ◽  
Shaodong Hu ◽  
Chunlin Yin ◽  
Dong Xu

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the relation between ApoE gene polymorphisms and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) during a 6-month follow-up. Methods: From October 2016 to July 2017, 211 patients were admitted to a cardiology clinic with a diagnosis of ACS. Blood samples were obtained from all patients on the first day. The primary end point was a 6-month incidence of MACE. ApoE gene polymorphism was genotyped by real-time PCR using TaqMan® SNP Genotyping Assay. Results: The patients with the E4 allele were associated with higher low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and total cholesterol (TC) levels compared with the patients without the E4 allele (p = 0001 and p = 0.001). The patients with the E4 allele were associated with a higher rate of MACE compared with the patients without the E4 allele (ApoE4 allele(+) 23.1% vs. ApoE4 allele(−) 9.3%; p = 0.03). Multivariable analysis suggested that E4 allele carriers showed an 85% risk increment of 6-month MACE (odds ratio 2.48, 95% confidence interval 2.37–5.95; p = 0.01). Conclusions: The trial shows that E4 allele carriers were correlated with not only higher LDL cholesterol and TC levels, but also with a higher incidence of MACE during a 6-month follow-up.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Lele Cheng ◽  
Lisha Zhang ◽  
Junhui Liu ◽  
Wenyuan Li ◽  
Xiaofang Bai ◽  
...  

Background. One of the key concerns of the clinician is to identify and manage risk factors for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in nondiabetic and diabetic patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) undergoing stent implantation. Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) is a marker of erythrocyte size and activity and is associated with prognosis of cardiovascular disease. However, the role of admission MCV in predicting MACEs following stent implantation in diabetes mellitus (DM), non-DM, or whole patients with ACS remains largely unknown. Methods and Results. A total of 437 ACS patients undergoing stent implantation, including 294 non-DM (59.08±10.24 years) and 143 DM (63.02±9.92 years), were analyzed. Admission MCV was higher in non-DM than DM patients. During a median of 31.93 months follow-up, Kaplan-Meier curve demonstrated that higher admission MCV level was significantly associated with increased MACEs in whole and non-DM, but not in DM patients. In Cox regression analysis, the highest MCV tertile was associated with higher MACEs in whole ([HR] 1.870, 95% CI 1.113-3.144, P=0.018), especially those non-DM ([HR] 2.089, 95% CI 1.077-4.501, P=0.029) patients after adjustment of several cardiovascular risk factors. MCV did not predict MACEs in DM patients. During landmark analysis, admission MCV showed better predictive value for MACEs in the first 32 months of follow-up than in the subsequent period. Finally, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was conducted to confirmed the value of admission MCV within 32 months. Conclusion. In patients with ACS, elevated admission MCV is an important and independent predictor for MACEs following stent implantation, especially amongst those without DM even after adjusting for lifestyle and clinical risk factors. However, as the follow-up period increased, the admission MCV lost its ability to predict MACEs.


Author(s):  
Rinat Ariely ◽  
Jennifer S Korsnes ◽  
Debanjali Mitra ◽  
Keith L Davis ◽  
Christopher Bell

Background: Healthcare resource utilization and costs associated with cardiovascular events among patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are needed to assess the value of treatments. Methods: A retrospective analysis of a large US administrative claims database (1/1/2006-12/31/2011) was conducted to describe episodes of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE: hospitalization for stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), or cardiac arrest) in adults with CHD and ACS, respectively. The CHD cohort (n=245,185) had either a diagnosis of MI, a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedure or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), or both, a CHD diagnosis and a multiple vessel coronary procedure, at a minimum. The ACS cohort (N= 75,231, not mutually exclusive with CHD) had ≥1 ACS-related hospitalization. The index date was the first observed cohort-specific disease claim and the 30-day period following the service date of the index episode or discharge date (for hospitalizations). Patients were required to have continuous health plan enrollment for 12 months +/- the index episode. HF, MI, and cardiac arrest diagnoses did not specify whether they were fatal or not. Results: Mean age in both cohorts was ~65 years and ~66% were male. The overall MI rate during the 12-month follow-up period was 15.6 and 26.4 per 1,000 person years for CHD and ACS patient, respectively. Among patients with at least one MACE, 286 CHD patients (4.8% of those with an event) and 137 ACS patients (5.5% of those with an event) experienced a second event during the 12-month follow-up period. Mean (SD) total episode-related costs per patient were $19,230 ($34,983) for CHD patients and $23,490 ($36,749) for ACS patients. Inpatient hospitalization represented the highest proportion of costs at 86.9% of CHD and 95.0% of ACS episode-related costs, while CVD-related pharmacotherapy mean costs (SD) were only $226 ($293) and $228 ($294) per patient for CHD and ACS, respectively. Conclusions: CHD and ACS are resource intensive diseases in the first year after index episode, with most costs related to hospitalizations. Outpatient cardiovascular drug costs make up a small proportion of the total costs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 817-823
Author(s):  
Marjo Okkonen ◽  
Aki S. Havulinna ◽  
Olavi Ukkola ◽  
Heikki Huikuri ◽  
Arto Pietilä ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Wei ◽  
Le Wang ◽  
Yongsheng Liu ◽  
Mingqi Zheng ◽  
Fangfang Ma ◽  
...  

Abstract Background We aimed to investigate correlation of homocysteine (Hcy) level with clinical characteristics, and explore its predictive value for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) risk in female patients with premature acute coronary syndrome (ACS).Methods Serum Hcy level was detected from 1,299 female patients with premature ACS. According to the tertile of Hcy level, patients were divided into three groups: lowest tertile group (≤9.1 µmol/L), middle tertile group (9.2~11.6 µmol/L) and highest tertile group (>11.6 µmol/L). MACE incidence was recorded and MACE-free survival was caculated with the median follow-up duration of 28.3 months.Results Increased Hcy correlated with older age ( P <0.001), higher creatinine level ( P <0.001) and enhanced uric acid level ( P =0.001), while reduced fasting glucose concentration ( P <0.001). MACE incidence was 10.7% and it was highest in highest tertile group (22.1%), followed by middle tertile group (7.7%) and lowest tertile group (2.4%) ( P <0.001). Receiver operating characteristic curve showed that Hcy distinguished MACE patients from non-MACE patients with the area under the curve of 0.789 (95% CI: 0.742-0.835). Kaplan-Meier curves revealed that MACE-free survival was shortest in Hcy highest tertile group, followed by middle tertile group and lowest tertile group ( P <0.001). Multivariate Cox’s analyses further showed that higher Hcy level was an independently predictive factor for poor MACE-free survival (middle tertile vs. lowest tertile ( P =0.001, HR: 3.615, 95% CI: 1.661-7.864); highest tertile vs. lowest tertile ( P <0.001, HR: 11.023, 95% CI: 5.356-22.684)).Conclusion Hcy serves as a potential predictive factor for increased MACE risk in female patients with premature ACS.


2011 ◽  
Vol 152 (8) ◽  
pp. 296-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Győző Dani ◽  
László Márk ◽  
András Katona

Authors aimed to assess how target values in serum lipid concentrations (LDL- and HDL-cholesterol, triglyceride) can be achieved in patients with a history of acute coronary syndrome during follow up in an outpatient cardiology clinic. Methods: 201 patients with a history of acute coronary syndrome were included and were followed up between January 1 and May 31, 2007.Authors analyzed serum lipid parameters of the patients and the lipid-lowering medications at the time of the first meeting and during follow up lasting two years. Results: During the enrollment visit only 26.4% of the patients had serum LDL cholesterol at target level, whereas high triglycerides and low HDL cholesterol levels were observed in 40.3% and 33.3% of the patients, respectively. Only 22 patients (10.9%) achieved the target levels in all three lipid parameters. Of the 201 patients, 179 patients participated in the follow up, and data obtained from these patients were analyzed. There was a positive trend toward better lipid parameters; 42.5% of the patients reached the desired LDL-cholesterol target value and 17.3% of the patients had HDL-cholesterol and triglycerides target values. Conclusions: These findings are consistent with those published in the literature. Beside the currently used therapeutic options for achieving optimal LDL-cholesterol, efforts should be made to reduce the so-called “residual cardiovascular risk” with the use of a widespread application of combination therapy. Orv. Hetil., 2011, 152, 296–302.


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