Introduction: Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have an increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity. Circulating endostatin is associated with both cardiovascular morbidity and impaired kidney function in the general population, but the utility of endostatin as a prognostic marker for CKD progression and mortality in patients with CKD is not well studied. The aim was to study association between serum endostatin and mortality, and also kidney function decline in a cohort of CKD patients (Salford Kidney Study [SKS]). Methods: Analyses were performed on baseline and annual follow-up samples from 970 adults in the SKS cohort with CKD stage 3–5. Association with mortality was studied using Cox proportional hazard models adjusted for age, gender, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, smoking status, diabetes mellitus, prior cardiovascular disease, creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and urine protein-to-creatinine ratio (uPCR). Associations between endostatin and eGFR decline were studied with linear regression analyses. eGFR decline was defined as the percentage difference between baseline eGFR and follow-up eGFR (median follow-up, 6.2 years). Results: Median age of the cohort was 66 years, with a median eGFR of 30 mL/min/1.73 m2. Multivariate Cox regression models revealed an association between higher endostatin levels and mortality with adjustments for established cardiovascular risk factors (HR: 1.14; CI: 1.02–1.28; p = 0.02) but was attenuated and nonsignificant after adjustments for baseline eGFR and uPCR. Baseline levels of endostatin were associated with eGFR decline but were nonsignificant after adjustments for baseline eGFR and uPCR. Changes of endostatin concentrations during the study were significantly associated with eGFR decline in all models (regression coefficient 0.0023% decrease per month [95% confidence intervals 0.0012–0.0034, p < 0.001]). Conclusion: The clinical utility of plasma endostatin for risk prediction in CKD patients seems limited. Importantly, longitudinal changes of endostatin were significantly associated with eGFR decline. The clinical relevance of this warrants further studies.
| Mualliflar | Johanna Helmersson‐Karlqvist, Rajkumar Chinnadurai, Per Wändell, Axel C. Carlsson, Philip A. Kalra, Anders Larsson, Tobias Feldreich, Johan Ärnlöv, Toralph Ruge |
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| Jurnal | PULSE |
| Nashr sanasi | 2026-03-24 |
| Jild | 14 |
| Son | 1 |
| Betlar | 31-42 |
| Til | en |
| DOI | 10.1159/000551072 |
DOI: 10.1159/000551072 · Maqolaning asl sahifasi · PDF
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