Cardiotrophin-1 in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
- 1 Department of Immunology, Jahrom University of Medical Science, Iran
- 2 Department of Cardiology, Jahrom University of Medical Science, Jahrom, Iran
- 3 Department of Public Health, Hormozgan University of Medical Science, Bandarabbas, Iran
Abstract
Problem statement: Myocardial infarction is the combined result of environmental and personal factors. Prothrombotic factors might play an important role in this phenomenon. Inflammation plays a pivotal role in atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Cardiotrophin-1 (CT-1), a member of the IL-6 family of cytokines, was identified as a growth factor for cardiac myocytes that induces cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and stimulates cardiac fibroblasts, protects myocytes from cell death. This study was designed to investigate whether plasma concentration of Cardiotrophin-1 (CT-1), in patients who had the first acute myocardial infarction and to analyze their relationship with traditional cardiovascular risk factors. Approach: This study was carried out on 45 patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) in their first 24 h of admission as case group and 36 healthy matched individuals were studied as the control. Plasma level of cardiotrophin-1 was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and the results were compared. Results: Plasma CT-1 levels in the patients with AMI on admission 615.279±5.109 pmol L-1 were significantly higher than those in the control group 534.767±6.750 pmol L-1 (p = 0.001). Plasma CT-1 level was not correlated with diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, sex, age and smoking. Conclusion: Our findings suggested that high plasma CT-1 level in patients with AMI is indicative of hypercoagulable state that is not related to the traditional cardiovascular risk factors.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2010.1190.1194
Copyright: © 2010 Abdolreza Sotoodeh Jahromi, Mohammad Shojaie and Abdoulhossain Madani. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Cardiotrophin-1
- myocardial infarction
- hypercoagulable