Cardiac Remodeling Biomarkers as Potential Circulating Markers of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.

Cardiac Remodeling Biomarkers as Potential Circulating Markers of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction. Tohoku J Exp Med. 2020;250(4):233-242 Authors: Mitic VT, Stojanovic DR, Deljanin Ilic MZ, Stojanovic MM, Petrovic DB, Ignjatovic AM, Stefanovic NZ, Kocic GM, Bojanic VV Abstract Soluble suppressor of tumorigenicity 2 (sST2), galectin-3, growth differentiation factor (GDF)-15 and syndecan-1 represent biomarkers of cardiac remodeling, involved in heart failure (HF) progression. We hypothesize that their plasma concentrations, together with brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), are different in HF stratified by ejection fraction (EF), demonstrating correlations with echocardiographic parameters that indicate left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy; LV mass index (LVMI) and posterior wall and septum diameters. HF patients (n = 77) were classified according to EF: reduced EF < 40% (HFrEF), mid-range EF = 40-49% (HFmrEF), preserved EF > 50% (HFpEF). We found that plasma concentrations of four cardiac remodeling biomarkers were highest in HFrEF and lowest in HFpEF, p < 0.001. In HFpEF, remodeling biomarkers independently correlated with LVMI: sST2 (p = 0. 002), galectin-3 (p < 0.001), GDF-15 (p = 0.011), and syndecan-1 (p = 0.006), whereas galectin-3 correlated after multivariable adjustments (p = 0.001). Independent correlates of septum and posterior wall diameters, in HFpEF, were sST2 (p = 0.01...
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