1. Association of high-risk coronary atherosclerosis at CCTA with clinical and circulating biomarkers: Insight from CAPIRE study
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Edoardo Conte, Daniele Andreini, Marco Magnoni, Serge Masson, Saima Mushtaq, Sergio Berti, Mauro Canestrari, Giancarlo Casolo, Domenico Gabrielli, Roberto Latini, Paolo Marraccini, Tiziano Moccetti, Maria Grazia Modena, Gianluca Pontone, Marco Gorini, Aldo P. Maggioni, Attilio Maseri, A. Maseri, D. Andreini, S. Berti, M. Canestrari, G. Casolo, D. Gabrielli, R. Latini, M. Magnoni, P. Marraccini, S. Masson, T. Moccetti, M.G. Modena, G. Pontone, F. Gaspari, S. Ferrari, A. Cannata, N. Stucchi, M. Fois, R. Bernasconi, G. Balconi, T. Vago, T. Letizia, B. Bottazzi, R. Leone, I. Suliman, M. Sommaruga, P. Gremigni, R. Olivieri, L. Pennacchietti, M. Magnacca, M.G. Rossi, E. Pasotti, A. Clemente, S. Mushtaq, E. Mauro, R. Rossi, F. Pigazzani, L. Faggioni, M. Ciardetti, and M. Puppato
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Male ,Computed Tomography Angiography ,Coronary Artery Disease ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Coronary Angiography ,Logistic regression ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,Prevalence ,Medicine ,Prospective Studies ,Age Factors ,Coronary ct angiography ,Middle Aged ,Prognosis ,Inflammatory biomarkers ,Plaque, Atherosclerotic ,Serum Amyloid P-Component ,C-Reactive Protein ,Italy ,Cohort ,Female ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,Coronary plaque ,Clinical risk factor ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Cardiac computed tomography ,Risk Assessment ,03 medical and health sciences ,Sex Factors ,Predictive Value of Tests ,Diabetes mellitus ,Internal medicine ,Multidetector Computed Tomography ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Coronary atherosclerosis ,Aged ,Glycated Hemoglobin ,Inflammation ,business.industry ,High-risk plaque features ,medicine.disease ,Cardiovascular prevention ,Circulating biomarkers ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,business ,Biomarkers - Abstract
Background High-risk coronary atherosclerosis features evaluated coronary CT angiography (CCTA) were suggested to have a prognostic role. The present study aimed to evaluate the association of circulating biomarkers with high-risk plaque features assessed by CCTA. Methods A consecutive cohort of subjects who underwent CCTA because of suspected CAD was screened for inclusion in the CAPIRE study. Based on risk factors (RF) burden patients were defined as having a low clinical risk (0–1 RF with the exclusion of patients with diabetes mellitus as single RF) or an high clinical risk (≥3 RFs). In all patients, measurement of inflammatory biomarkers and CCTA analysis focused on high-risk plaque features were performed. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis were used to evaluate the relationship between clinical and biological variables with CCTA advanced plaque features. Results 528 patients were enrolled in CAPIRE study. Older age and male sex appeared to be predictors of qualitative high-risk plaque features and associated with the presence of elevated total, non-calcified and low-attenuation plaque volume. Among circulating biomarkers only hs-CRP was found to be associated with qualitative high-risk plaque features (OR 2.02, p = 0.004 and 2.02, p = 0.012 for LAP and RI > 1.1, respectively) with borderline association with LAP-Vol (OR 1.52, p = 0.076); HbA1c and PTX-3 resulted to be significantly associated with quantitative high-risk plaque features (OR 1.71, p = 0.003 and 1.04, p = 0.002 for LAP-Vol, respectively). Conclusions Our results support the association between inflammatory biomarkers (hs-CRP, PTX- 3), HbA1c and high-risk atherosclerotic features detected by CCTA. Male sex and older age are significant predictors of high-risk atherosclerosis.
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- 2021
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