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Adjusted troponin I for improved evaluation of patients with chest pain

  • 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.

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Author:Jes-Niels Boeckel, Lars Palapies, Jens KlotscheORCiDGND, Tanja Zeller, Beatrice von JeinsenGND, Maya Felicitas Perret, Soeren L. Kleinhaus, Lars Pieper, Stergios TzikasORCiDGND, David LeistnerORCiDGND, Christoph Bickel, Günter K. Stalla, Hendrik Lehnert, Bertil Lindahl, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Sigmund Silber, Stephan BaldusGND, Winfried MärzORCiDGND, Stefanie DimmelerORCiDGND, Stefan Blankenberg, Thomas MünzelORCiDGND, Andreas M. ZeiherORCiDGND, Till KellerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-465647
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26120-1
ISSN:2045-2322
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29799020
Parent Title (English):Scientific reports
Publisher:Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
Place of publication:[London]
Contributor(s):Elizabeth Martinson
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2018
Date of first Publication:2018/05/24
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2018/06/05
Tag:Cardiovascular biology; Diagnostic markers
Volume:8
Issue:1, Art. 8087
Page Number:9
First Page:1
Last Page:9
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HeBIS-PPN:433813954
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Herz-Lungen-System
Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Makromolekulare Komplexe
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / DFG-Forschergruppen
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0