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. 2010 Apr;3(2):207-14.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.109.852814. Epub 2010 Feb 19.

Association of a peripheral blood metabolic profile with coronary artery disease and risk of subsequent cardiovascular events

Svati H Shah  1 , James R Bain, Michael J Muehlbauer, Robert D Stevens, David R Crosslin, Carol Haynes, Jennifer Dungan, L Kristin Newby, Elizabeth R Hauser, Geoffrey S Ginsburg, Christopher B Newgard, William E Kraus
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Association of a peripheral blood metabolic profile with coronary artery disease and risk of subsequent cardiovascular events

Svati H Shah et al. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2010 Apr.

Abstract

Background: Molecular tools may provide insight into cardiovascular risk. We assessed whether metabolites discriminate coronary artery disease (CAD) and predict risk of cardiovascular events.

Methods and results: We performed mass-spectrometry-based profiling of 69 metabolites in subjects from the CATHGEN biorepository. To evaluate discriminative capabilities of metabolites for CAD, 2 groups were profiled: 174 CAD cases and 174 sex/race-matched controls ("initial"), and 140 CAD cases and 140 controls ("replication"). To evaluate the capability of metabolites to predict cardiovascular events, cases were combined ("event" group); of these, 74 experienced death/myocardial infarction during follow-up. A third independent group was profiled ("event-replication" group; n=63 cases with cardiovascular events, 66 controls). Analysis included principal-components analysis, linear regression, and Cox proportional hazards. Two principal components analysis-derived factors were associated with CAD: 1 comprising branched-chain amino acid metabolites (factor 4, initial P=0.002, replication P=0.01), and 1 comprising urea cycle metabolites (factor 9, initial P=0.0004, replication P=0.01). In multivariable regression, these factors were independently associated with CAD in initial (factor 4, odds ratio [OR], 1.36; 95% CI, 1.06 to 1.74; P=0.02; factor 9, OR, 0.67; 95% CI, 0.52 to 0.87; P=0.003) and replication (factor 4, OR, 1.43; 95% CI, 1.07 to 1.91; P=0.02; factor 9, OR, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.48 to 0.91; P=0.01) groups. A factor composed of dicarboxylacylcarnitines predicted death/myocardial infarction (event group hazard ratio 2.17; 95% CI, 1.23 to 3.84; P=0.007) and was associated with cardiovascular events in the event-replication group (OR, 1.52; 95% CI, 1.08 to 2.14; P=0.01).

Conclusions: Metabolite profiles are associated with CAD and subsequent cardiovascular events.

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