Plasma RANTES level is correlated with cardio‐cerebral atherosclerosis burden in patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease
Year: 2020
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Regulated upon activation, normal T-cell expressed, and secreted (RANTES) is a chemokine actively involved in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis (AS), which is the major cause of ischemic cerebrovascular disease (ICVD). This study aimed to determine the associations between circulating RANTES level and overall AS conditions of cardiac and cerebral vessel beds in patients with ICVD. METHODS: Patients with ICVD admitted to the department of neurology of Xuanwu Hospital from April 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019 were prospectively enrolled in the study. Plasma RANTES level was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to represent the circulating RANTES level. The integrated AS burden of the cervicocephalic and coronary arteries was examined using computed tomography angiography and reflected by "cardio-cerebral AS burden (CCAB)" as a continuous variable. Then, the relationship of plasma RANTES level and CCAB in patients with ICVD was analyzed by correlation analyses and general linear models. RESULTS: RANTES, 12.063; 95% confidence interval, 7.572-16.533). The association of plasma RANTES level with AS conditions (burden, severity, and extent) in single cardiac or cerebral vessel bed was similar to that with CCAB, but the correlation coefficient for CCAB was higher (increment ranged from 0.126 to 0.397). CONCLUSIONS: Plasma RANTES level was an independent indicator for the integrated AS burden of the cervicocephalic and coronary arteries in ICVD. Comprehensive evaluation of AS conditions using the novel continuous index CCAB might be important in revealing the systematic relationship between circulating RANTES and AS in patients with ICVD.
Language: English
Subfield: Immunology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funders: Capital Medical University, Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality, Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals Clinical Medicine Development of Special Funding Support, Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals, Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cardiovascular Disease Translational Medicine, NIH Clinical Center
OpenAlex ID: W3012330418