Journal
ATHEROSCLEROSIS
Volume 230, Issue 2, Pages 228-234Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.07.008
Keywords
Stroke; Myocardial infarction; Carotid stenoses; Intraplaque hemorrhage
Funding
- Finnish Medical Foundation
- Academy of Finland
- Sigrid Juselius Foundation
- Hospital District Of Helsinki
- Uusimaa Research Funds
- Finnish Brain Foundation
- Finnish Society of Angiology
- Foundation of Paavo Nurmi
- Foundation of Ida Montin
- Foundation of Maire Taponen
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Objective: Intraplaque hemorrhages (IPH) may predispose to unstable atherosclerotic disease and its atherothrombotic complications, ischemic stroke and coronary syndromes. However, the discriminative value of IPH has been limited in histological and imaging studies suggesting that confounding factors modulate the response to IPH. We studied whether common variants of haptoglobin (Hp), which facilitates the removal of free hemoglobin and protects tissues from heme-iron induced oxidative damage, would modify the inflammatory response to IPH and the risk of unstable carotid stenosis (CS) and major cardiovascular diseases. Methods: We genotyped Hp polymorphism in 91 patients with a high-grade CS from Helsinki Carotid Endarterectomy Study (HeCES) and in 1417 individuals from Health 2000, a Finnish epidemiological cross-sectional health survey, and determined heme oxygenase-1 (HO1) expression in relation to Hp genotypes in carotid plaques. Results: In the Health 2000 cohort, Hp genotype frequencies were 0.143 (hp1-1), 0.486 (hp1-2) and 0.371 (hp2-2) consistent with Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and those reported from other Caucasian populations. Among patients with unstable CS, the frequency of hp2-2 genotype was higher than in the control population (0.516 vs. 0.371, P = 0.025). Hp genotypes correlated with HO1 expression in the plaque (r = 0.47, P = 0.027). In the Health 2000 cohort, hp2 allele was associated with an increased risk of major cardiovascular diseases (ischemic stroke, TIA, myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease) with an adjusted OR of 1.46 (95% CI 1.03-2.06). Conclusion: Common haptoglobin variants modulate the inflammatory response to IPH and associate with the risk of unstable carotid stenosis and major ischemic cardiovascular events. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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