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Prognostic value of secretoneurin in chronic heart failure. Data from the GISSI-Heart Failure trial

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CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 118, Issue -, Pages -

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2023.110595

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Heart failure; Prognosis; Biomarkers; GISSI-HF; Secretoneurin

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This study aimed to assess whether circulating secretoneurin (SN) concentrations could provide prognostic information in patients with chronic heart failure (HF). Plasma SN concentrations were measured in a large multicenter trial, and higher concentrations were found to be associated with mortality in chronic HF patients. Therefore, plasma SN concentrations can serve as a prognostic marker in patients with chronic HF.
Background: Circulating secretoneurin (SN) concentrations have been found to provide prognostic information in patients with acute heart failure. We wanted to assess whether SN would improve prognostication also in patients with chronic heart failure (HF) in a large multicenter trial.Methods: We measured plasma SN concentrations at randomization (n = 1224) and after 3 months (n = 1103) in patients with chronic, stable HF from the GISSI-HF study. The co-primary endpoints were (1) time to death or (2) admission to hospital for cardiovascular reasons.Results: Mean age was 67 years and 80% were male. Median (quartile 1-3) SN concentrations were 42.6 (35.0-62.8) pmol/L on randomization and 42.0 (34.5-53.1) pmol/L after 3 months, which are higher than SN concentrations in healthy subjects. Higher SN concentrations at randomization were associated with lower body mass index (BMI), lower systolic blood pressure, lower estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), higher B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) concentrations, and diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. During median follow-up of 3.9 years, 344 patients (27.0%) died. After adjusting for age, sex, left ventricular ejection fraction, BMI, functional class, ischemic etiology, heart rate, blood pressure, eGFR, bilirubin, comorbidities, and BNP concentrations, logarithmically transformed SN concentrations on randomization were associated with mortality (HR 2.60 (95% CI 1.01-6.70), p = 0.047). SN concentrations were also associated with admission to hospital for cardiovascular reasons, but the association was attenuated and no longer significant in multivariable analysis.Conclusion: Plasma SN concentrations provided incremental prognostic information to established risk indices and biomarkers in a large cohort of chronic HF patients.

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