10-Year Cardiovascular Risk, Serum Lipid Indices and High Sensitivity CRP in a Healthy Population

Year 2023, Volume: 13 Issue: 2, 225 - 231, 30.06.2023

Sinan Akıncı , Ertan Akbay

https://doi.org/10.31832/smj.1166369

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Objective: It is very important to identify individuals at high risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD) and for this purpose, many risk calculation tools and parameters are used. In this study, we aimed to investigate the correlation between the ACC/AHA cardiovascular risk and serum lipid indices and high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in a healthy population.
Methods: Our study was conducted retrospectively on individuals aged between 40 and 79 years and with sufficient data, using the hospital database. Patients with a history of any chronic disease and active infection were excluded. Individuals were analyzed by grouping them into low (<5%) and borderline to high (>5%) estimated 10-year risk of ASCVD.
Results: 184 individuals with a median age of 46 and 37.5% women were included in the study. The median 10-year estimated risk of ASCVD in the study population was 3% (1.3/5.98). The low-risk group had a significantly lower atherogenic index of plasma (AIP), Castelli I risk index (CR-I), and Castelli II risk index (CR-II) compared to the borderline to high-risk group (p <0.001 for all). However, CRP was not different between groups (p: 0.683). The 10-year risk of ASCVD was statistically significantly correlated with AIP (R:0.380; p<0.001), CR-I (R:0.467; p<0.001), and CR-II (R:0.482; p<0.001), but no correlation was detected with hs-CRP (R:0.065; p:0.381).
Conclusion: The lack of correlation between ACC/AHA's risk calculation tool and hs-CRPsuggests that hs-CRP cannot be used as a high-risk indicator in these individuals or that this tool is insufficient to detect some high-risk patients.

Keywords

C-reactive protein, Cardiovascular Risk Score, Dyslipidemias

Supporting Institution

Baskent University Research Fund

Project Number

KA22-53

Thanks

We would like to thank Dr Ali Çoner and Dr Adem Adar for their valuable contribution and support to our study.

Sağlıklı Bir Popülasyonda 10 Yıllık Kardiyovasküler Risk, Serum Lipid İndeksleri veYüksek Duyarlı CRP

Abstract

Amaç: Aterosklerotik kardiyovasküler hastalık (ASKH) açısından yüksek risk altındaki bireylerin belirlenmesi oldukça önemlidir ve bu amaçla birçok risk hesaplama aracı ve parametresi kullanılmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, sağlıklı bir popülasyonda ACC/AHA tarafından geliştirilen kardiyovasküler risk hesaplama aracı ile serum lipid indeksleri ve yüksek duyarlıklı C-reaktif protein (hs-CRP) arasındaki ilişkiyi araştırmayı amaçladık.
Yöntemler: Çalışmamız, hastane veri tabanı kullanılarak, 40-79 yaş arası ve yeterli veriye sahip bireyler üzerinde geriye dönük olarak yapıldı. Herhangi bir kronik hastalığı ve aktif enfeksiyonu olan hastalar çalışma dışı bırakıldı. Bireyler, düşük (<%5) ve sınırda-yüksek (>%5) tahmini 10 yıllık ASKH riski olarak gruplandırılarak analiz edildi.
Bulgular: Çalışmaya ortanca yaşı 46 ve %37,5'i kadın olan 184 kişi dahil edildi. Çalışma popülasyonunda ortanca 10 yıllık tahmini ASKH riski %3'tü (1.3/5.98). Düşük risk grubu, sınırda-yüksek risk grubuna kıyasla önemli ölçüde daha düşük aterojenik plazma indeksi (AIP), Castelli I risk indeksi (CR-I) ve Castelli II risk indeksine (CR-II) sahipti (tümü için p <0,001). Ancak CRP gruplar arasında farklı değildi (p: 0.683). 10 yıllık ASKH riski, AIP (R:0.380; p<0.001), CR-I (R:0.467; p<0.001) ve CR-II (R:0.482; p<0.001) ile istatistiksel olarak anlamlı şekilde korele idi, ancak hs-CRP ile korelasyon saptanmadı (R:0.065; p:0.381).
Sonuç: ACC/AHA'nın risk hesaplama aracı ile hs-CRP arasında korelasyon olmaması, hs-CRP'nin bu bireylerde yüksek risk göstergesi olarak kullanılamayacağını veya bu aracın bazı yüksek riskli hastaları tespit etmede yetersiz olduğunu düşündürmektedir.

Keywords

C-Reaktif Protein, Kardiyovasküler Risk Skoru, Dislipidemiler

Project Number

KA22-53

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