Abstract | AIMS: We examined the prognostic importance of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) in a cohort of patients enrolled in the ASCEND-HF study of nesiritide in acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). Circulating troponins are a prognostic marker in patients with ADHF. Contemporary assays with greater sensitivity require reassessment of the significance of troponin elevation in HF. METHODS AND RESULTS: Cardiac troponin I was measured in a core laboratory in 808 ADHF patients enrolled in the ASCEND-HF biomarkers substudy using a sensitive assay (VITROS Trop I ES, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics) with a lower limit of detection of 0.012 ng/mL and a 99th percentile upper reference limit (URL) of 0.034 ng/mL. Patients with clinical evidence of acute coronary syndrome or troponin >5× the URL were excluded. Multivariable modelling was used to assess the relationship between log(cTnI) and in-hospital and post-discharge outcomes. Baseline cTnI was undetectable in 22% and elevated above the 99th percentile URL in 50% of subjects. cTnI levels did not differ based on HF aetiology. After multivariable adjustment, higher cTnI was associated with worsened in-hospital outcomes such as length of stay (P = 0.01) and worsening HF during the index hospitalization (P = 0.01), but was not associated with worsened post-discharge outcomes at 30 or 180 days. The relationship between cTnI and outcomes was generally linear and there was no evidence of a threshold effect at any particular level of cTnI. CONCLUSION: cTnI is elevated above the 99th percentile URL in 50% of ADHF patients and predicts in-hospital outcome, but is not an independent predictor of long-term outcomes.
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Authors | G Michael Felker, Vic Hasselblad, W H Wilson Tang, Adrian F Hernandez, Paul W Armstrong, Gregg C Fonarow, Adriaan A Voors, Marco Metra, John J V McMurray, Javed Butler, Gretchen M Heizer, Kenneth Dickstein, Barry M Massie, Dan Atar, Richard W Troughton, Stefan D Anker, Robert M Califf, Randall C Starling, Christopher M O'Connor |
Journal | European journal of heart failure
(Eur J Heart Fail)
Vol. 14
Issue 11
Pg. 1257-64
(Nov 2012)
ISSN: 1879-0844 [Electronic] England |
PMID | 22764184
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Chemical References |
- Natriuretic Agents
- Troponin I
- Natriuretic Peptide, Brain
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Topics |
- Aged
- Confidence Intervals
- Female
- Heart Diseases
(blood, mortality, pathology)
- Humans
- Male
- Models, Statistical
- Multivariate Analysis
- Natriuretic Agents
(blood)
- Natriuretic Peptide, Brain
(blood)
- Odds Ratio
- Prognosis
- Statistics as Topic
- Troponin I
(blood)
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