TY  - JOUR
A1  - Boeckel, Jes-Niels
A1  - Palapies, Lars
A1  - Klotsche, Jens
A1  - Zeller, Tanja
A1  - Jeinsen, Beatrice von
A1  - Perret, Maya Felicitas
A1  - Kleinhaus, Soeren L.
A1  - Pieper, Lars
A1  - Tzikas, Stergios
A1  - Leistner, David
A1  - Bickel, Christoph
A1  - Stalla, Günter K.
A1  - Lehnert, Hendrik
A1  - Lindahl, Bertil
A1  - Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich
A1  - Silber, Sigmund
A1  - Baldus, Stephan
A1  - März, Winfried
A1  - Dimmeler, Stefanie
A1  - Blankenberg, Stefan
A1  - Münzel, Thomas
A1  - Zeiher, Andreas M.
A1  - Keller, Till
T1  - Adjusted troponin I for improved evaluation of patients with chest pain
T2  - Scientific reports
N2  - The use of cardiac troponins (cTn) is the gold standard for diagnosing myocardial infarction. Independent of myocardial infarction (MI), however, sex, age and kidney function affect cTn levels. Here we developed a method to adjust cTnI levels for age, sex, and renal function, maintaining a unified cut-off value such as the 99th percentile. A total of 4587 individuals enrolled in a prospective longitudinal study were used to develop a model for adjustment of cTn. cTnI levels correlated with age and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in males/females with rage = 0.436/0.518 and with reGFR = −0.142/−0.207. For adjustment, these variables served as covariates in a linear regression model with cTnI as dependent variable. This adjustment model was then applied to a real-world cohort of 1789 patients with suspected acute MI (AMI) (N = 407). Adjusting cTnI showed no relevant loss of diagnostic information, as evidenced by comparable areas under the receiver operator characteristic curves, to identify AMI in males and females for adjusted and unadjusted cTnI. In specific patients groups such as in elderly females, adjusting cTnI improved specificity for AMI compared with unadjusted cTnI. Specificity was also improved in patients with renal dysfunction by using the adjusted cTnI values. Thus, the adjustments improved the diagnostic ability of cTnI to identify AMI in elderly patients and in patients with renal dysfunction. Interpretation of cTnI values in complex emergency cases is facilitated by our method, which maintains a single diagnostic cut-off value in all patients.
KW  - Cardiovascular biology
KW  - Diagnostic markers
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46564
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-465647
SN  - 2045-2322
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VL  - 8
IS  - 1, Art. 8087
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
PB  - Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
CY  - [London]
ER  -