Anti-apolipoprotein A-1 IgG, incident cardiovascular events, and lipid paradox in rheumatoid arthritis.

Mongin, Denis; Pagano, Sabrina; Lamacchia, Celine; Juillard, Catherine; Antinori-Malaspina, Paola; Dan, Diana; Ciurea, Adrian; Möller, Burkhard; Gabay, Cem; Finckh, Axel; Vuilleumier, Nicolas (2024). Anti-apolipoprotein A-1 IgG, incident cardiovascular events, and lipid paradox in rheumatoid arthritis. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 11(1386192) Frontiers 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1386192

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OBJECTIVE

To validate the prognostic accuracy of anti-apolipoprotein A-1 (AAA1) IgG for incident major adverse cardiovascular (CV) events (MACE) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and study their associations with the lipid paradox at a multicentric scale.

METHOD

Baseline AAA1 IgG, lipid profile, atherogenic indexes, and cardiac biomarkers were measured on the serum of 1,472 patients with RA included in the prospective Swiss Clinical Quality Management registry with a median follow-up duration of 4.4 years. MACE was the primary endpoint defined as CV death, incident fatal or non-fatal stroke, or myocardial infarction (MI), while elective coronary revascularization (ECR) was the secondary endpoint. Discriminant accuracy and incidence rate ratios (IRR) were respectively assessed using C-statistics and Poisson regression models.

RESULTS

During follow-up, 2.4% (35/1,472) of patients had a MACE, consisting of 6 CV deaths, 11 MIs, and 18 strokes; ECR occurred in 2.1% (31/1,472) of patients. C-statistics indicated that AAA1 had a significant discriminant accuracy for incident MACE [C-statistics: 0.60, 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 0.57-0.98, p = 0.03], mostly driven by CV deaths (C-statistics: 0.77; 95% CI: 0.57-0.98, p = 0.01). IRR indicated that each unit of AAA1 IgG increase was associated with a fivefold incident CV death rate, independent of models' adjustments. At the predefined and validated cut-off, AAA1 displayed negative predictive values above 97% for MACE. AAA1 inversely correlated with total and HDL cholesterol.

CONCLUSIONS

AAA1 independently predicts CV deaths, and marginally MACE in RA. Further investigations are requested to ascertain whether AAA1 could enhance CV risk stratification by identifying patients with RA at low CV risk.

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