Involvement of FFA Metabolism and Insulin Resistance in Cardiac Death (CD_HD_FAIR)

Toujinkai Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease; Hemodialysis; Kidney Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01068080

Toujinkai Clincal Study-2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators evaluated predictive values of myocardial fatty acid metabolism and insulin resistance for cardiac death of hemodialysis patients with normal coronary arteries.

Full description

Dialysis patients have extraordinarily high mortality rates. Cardiac diseases play an important role in deaths among end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing renal replacement therapy. Previous studies have shown that maintenance hemodialysis patients have high prevalence of obstructive coronary artery disease. While obstructive coronary artery disease is undoubtedly involved in cardiac deaths induced by acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure and in sudden cardiac death, cardiac death can occur in hemodialysis patients who have apparently no pre-existing obstructive coronary artery disease. However, few studies have investigated the factors which are useful for stratifying the risk of cardiac death in dialysis patients with normal coronary arteries.

We recently showed that visualizing severely impaired myocardial fatty acid metabolism on images can help not only to detect obstructive coronary artery disease [8], but also to identify patients at high risk of cardiac death among hemodialysis patients without coronary intervention or old myocardial infarction and among those with coronary revascularization by percutaneous coronary artery intervention. In addition, combination of impaired cardiac fatty acid metabolism with insulin resistance, which is one of the risk factors related with coronary atherosclerosis, may contribute to left ventricular dysfunction in patients with maintenance hemodialysis with normal coronary arteries. Impaired myocardial fatty acid metabolism and insulin resistance, both of which reduce the synthesis of myocardial adenosine triphosphate (ATP), are likely to be involved in fatal cardiac events by causing deficiency of myocardial energy supply. In this study, we prospectively investigated the potential of myocardial fatty acid metabolism and insulin resistance to predict cardiac death in hemodialysis patients without pre-existing obstructive coronary artery disease.

Enrollment: 155 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hemodialysis patients who had normal coronary arteries identified by coronary angiography and underwent the examination of BMIPP SPECT and measurement of HOMA-IR as a parameter of insulin resistance.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who had not done BMIPP SPECT within one month of coronary angiography
• Congestive heart failure (NYHA 3-4)
• Significant valvular heart disease
• Pacemaker
• Idiopathic cardiomyopathy
• Malignancy
• Patients who had not measured HOMA-IR within one month after coronary angiography
• Patients receiving extrinsic insulin or medication of sulfonylurea

Trial design

155 participants in 1 patient group

Myocardial fatty acid metabolism, Insulin resistance

Description:

Myocardial fatty acid metabolism was evaluated by myocardial fatty acid imaging using BMIPP SPECT. Insulin resistance was evaluated by HOMA-IR.