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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

An Ethnic Comparison of Arginine Dimethylation and Cardiometabolic Factors in Healthy Black and White Youth: The ASOS and African-PREDICT Studies.

Alexander Bollenbach, Aletta E Schutte, Ruan Kruger, Dimitrios Tsikas

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Alexander BollenbachInstitute of Toxicology, Core Unit Proteomics, Hannover Medical School, 30623 Hannover, Germany.
Aletta E SchutteHypertension in Africa Research Team (HART), MRC Research Unit for Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-9217-4937
Ruan KrugerHypertension in Africa Research Team (HART), MRC Research Unit for Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-7680-2032
Dimitrios TsikasInstitute of Toxicology, Core Unit Proteomics, Hannover Medical School, 30623 Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6320-0956
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover · DENorth-West University · ZA

Funding

South African Medical Research Council GUN 86895
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proteinic arginine dimethylation (PADiMe) is a major post-translational modification. Proteolysis of asymmetric and symmetric PADiMe products releases asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA), respectively, two endogenous atherogenic substances. SDMA, ADMA, and its major metabolite dimethylamine (DMA) are eliminated by the kidney. The urinary concentrations of DMA+ADMA, SDMA, and DMA+ADMA+SDMA are useful measures of the whole-body asymmetric and symmetric PADiMe, respectively. Urinary (DMA+ADMA)/SDMA is an index of the asymmetric to symmetric PADiMe balance. In two bi-ethnic studies, the ASOS (39 black boys, 41 white boys) and the African-PREDICT (292 black young men, 281 white young men) studies, we investigated whether ethnicity is a major determinant of PADiMe, and whether PADiMe is associated with blood pressure and ethnicity-dependent growth and inflammatory factors, including HDL. DMA, ADMA, and SDMA were measured in spot urine samples by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and their excretion was corrected for creatinine excretion. In black boys, creatinine-corrected DMA, DMA+ADMA, and DMA+ADMA+SDMA concentrations were lower by 11.7%, 9.5%, and 7.6% (all

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