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. 2019 Jun 2;2019:7583690. doi: 10.1155/2019/7583690

Table 1.

Novel inflammatory biomarkers for diagnosis and/or prognosis in LVDD and HFpEF.

Biomarker Authors Clinical study Population (n) Diagnosis biomarker Prognosis biomarker
Single marker
CRP Sciarretta et al. [95] 128 Correlated with LVMI and E/E
Koller et al. [96] LURIC study 459 HR: 1.32 (95% CI 1.08–1.62), CV mortality at 5 years
Sinning et al. [97] GHS study 5000 AUC 0.66 (95% CI: 0.61–0.71) HR: 1.5 (95% CI: 1.3–1.7)
DuBrock et al. [98] RELAX study 214 Higher levels in LVDD
IL-6 Haugen et al. [62] 72 Higher levels in LVDD Cut − off value > 10 ng/L, 1-year mortality
Mocan et al. [14] 72 AUC 0.73 (95% CI: 0.61–0.83)
Kloch et al. [99] EPOGH study 303 Correlated with E′ (r = 0.039)
IL-8 Collier et al. [57] 275 Higher values in HFpEF hypertensive patients
Phelan et al. [100] 41 Higher levels with greater LVMI and LAVI
TNF-α Sciarretta et al. [95] 128 Correlated with LVMI and E/E
Dunlay et al. [69] Olmsted County study 486 HR: 2.10 (95% CI: 1.30–3.38)
Pentraxin-3 Matsubara et al. [71] 82 OR: 1.49 (95% CI: 1.11-1.98)
MCP-1 Ding et al. [75] Guangdong Coronary Artery Disease Cohort 1411 HR: 1.5-2.11
C-index +12,6%
Galectin-3 Shah et al. [101] PRIDE study 115 Correlated with E/E′ (r = 0.035)
De Boer et al. [78] COACH study 592 HR: 1.97 (1.62–2.42), better for HFpEF than for HFrEF
Edelmann et al. [102] Aldo-DHF trial 422 HR: 3.319 (95% CI: 1.214-9.07), all-cause death or hospitalization at 6 or 12 months
Soluble ST2 Bartunek et al. [103] 163 ST2 mARN higher in LVDD, correlated with LVEDP
Shah et al. [104] 134 Correlated with E amplitude
Manzano-Fernández et al. [105] 447 Cut-off 0.35 ng/mL
HR: 3.26 (95% CI: 1.50–7.05), prediction of 1-year mortality
Shah et al. [106] 387 HR: 2.85 (95% CI: 2.04–3.99), prediction of 1-year mortality
Santhanakrishnan et al. [93] SHOP study 151 Cut-off 26.47 ng/mL, AUC 0.662 (95% CI: 0.554–0.770)
Se 70%, Sp 48% for HFpEF
Wang et al. [107] Cut-off 13.5 ng/mL
OR: 11.7 (95% CI: 2.9-47.4) for HFpEF
Anand et al. [108] VAL-HEFT study 1650 Cut − off sST2 ≤ 33.2 ng/mL
Cox logHR: 0.048 (0.031-0.065), 1-year mortality
Sinning et al. [97] GHS study 5000 AUC 0.62 (95% CI: 0.56–0.67) HR: 1.4 (95% CI: 1.2–1.6)
Farcas et al. [82] 76 OR: 2.43 (95% CI: 1.32-7.24) at baseline predicts the CV events for 1 year
Farcas et al. [81] 88 Cut-off 28.14 ng/mL (Se 94.4%, Sp 69.1%) for LVDD
Cut-off 14 04 ng/mL (Se 82.1%, Sp 53.8%) for LVH
AUC: 0.732 (95% CI: 0.613–0.850)
Najjar et al. [109] 193 HR: 6.62 (95% CI: 1.04–42.28) for mortality or rehospitalization
GDF-15 Stahrenberg et al. [92] 1935 Cut-off 1.16 ng/mL, AUC 0.891 (95% CI: 0.850-0.932)
Santhanakrishnan et al. [93] SHOP study 151 Cut-off 879 pg/mL (Se 92%, Sp 84%)
Cut-off 1120 pg/mL (Sp 92%, Se 82%)
Sinning et al. [97] GHS study 5000 AUC 0.79 (95% CI: 0.75–0.83) HR: 1.7 (95% CI: 1.6–1.9)
Chan et al. [94] SHOP study 488 HR: 1.68 (95% CI: 1.15–2.45) CV events at 6 months
MyBP-C Jeong et al. [50] Higher values in HFpEF than in HFrEF (4.02 ± 1.4 vs. 2.01 ± 0.61)
Tong et al. [49] 158 Prestress cut-off 127 ng/mL, HR: 8.1 (95% CI: 1.09-60.09)
Poststress cut-off 214 ng/mL, HR: 4.77 (95% CI: 1.75-12.98)

Multimarker score
CRP+GDF-15+sST2/NT-proBNP and GDF-15/NT-proBNP Sinning et al. [97] GHS study 5000 Discrimination between HFpEF and HFrEF
NT-proBNP+GDF-15 Stahrenberg et al. [92] 1935 AUC 0.942 (0.912-0.972)
GDF − 15 ≥ 1.16 ng/mL + NT − proBNP ≥ 200.7 ng/L (Se 56.6%, Sp 98.9%)
Chan et al. [94] 488 AUC: 0.891 (95% CI: 0.850-0.932) for GDF-15 HR: 1.68 (95% CI: 1.15–2.45), risk for composite outcome (mortality and rehospitalization)

AUC: area under the curve; CI: confidence interval; CRP: C reactive protein; CV: cardiovascular; EPOGH: European Project on Genes in Hypertension; GDF-15: growth differentiation factor 15; GHS: Gothenburg Heart Study; IL: interleukin; HFrEF: heart failure with reduced ejection fraction; HFpEF: heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; HR: hazard ratio; LAVI: left atrial volume index; LVDD: left ventricular diastolic dysfunction; LVED: left ventricular end-diastolic pressure; LVMI: left ventricular mass index; MCP-1: monocyte chemoattractant protein 1; MyBP-C: myosin-binding protein C; NT-proBNP: N-terminal probrain natriuretic peptide; OR: odds ratio; PRIDE: Pro-BNP Investigation of Dyspnea in the Emergency Department; RELAX: Phosphodiesterase-5 Inhibition to Improve Clinical Status and Exercise Capacity in Diastolic Heart Failure; SHOP: Singapore Heart Failure Outcomes and Phenotypes; TNF-α: tumor necrosis factor alpha; sST2: soluble ST2; VAL-HEFT: Valsartan Heart Failure Trial.