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Provedor de dados: | Biological Research
País: | Chile
Título: | Association of serum total bilirubin levels with diastolic dysfunction in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Autores: | Zheng,Huan; Li,Ye; Xie,Nanzi.
Data: | 2014-01-01
Ano: | 2014
Palavras-chave: | Bilirubin; Heart failure; Diastolic dysfunction; Echocardiography.
Resumo: | BACKGROUND: Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is one of the main characteristics of heart failure patients with a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction. As bilirubin is regarded as an important endogenous antioxidant molecule, serum total bilirubin levels were compared between heart failure patients with a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction and normal controls in this study. We recruited 327 heart failure patients with a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction and 200 healthy controls. Patients were divided into 4 subgroups by their comprehensive echocardiographic manifestations, 1-mild, 2-moderate, 3-severe (reversible restrictive), 4-severe (fixed restrictive). Total bilirubin levels were compared using stepwise multiple regressions adjusted for selected factors. RESULTS: After adjusting for gender, age, smoking, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol and triglyceride, serum total bilirubin levels were significantly lower in the heart failure group compared with the control group (P &lt; 0.01). Patients in the subgroup (4-severe) showed significantly (P &lt; 0.05) lower levels of total bilirubin when compared with the subgroup (1-mild). CONCLUSIONS: TB level was negatively correlated with left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in heart failure patients with a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction, which might provide a new insight into the complicated mechanisms of heart failure with a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction.
Tipo: | Journal article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602014000100007
Editor: | Sociedad de Biología de Chile
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Biological Research  v.47 2014