ArticleCytokine: X2019
The change in the circadian rhythm of macrophage colony-stimulating factor content in the blood of patients with essential hypertension.
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- Global trends and hotspots in macrophage research related to hypertension from 2015-2024: bibliometric research and visualization analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Pooled it
- Research progress of circadian rhythm in cardiovascular disease: A bibliometric study from 2002 to 2022.Heliyon · 2024Review
- An Overview of Growth Factors as the Potential Link between Psoriasis and Metabolic Syndrome.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
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Abstract
The purpose of this research is to study the characteristics of the change in the circadian rhythm of macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) content in the peripheral blood serum of patients with stage II essential hypertension (EH) based on 5 time points (8:00, 14:00, 20:00, 2:00, and 8:00) and analyze its connection with the frequency of cardiovascular events. MATERIALS AND
methodsIdentified levels of M-CSF in the peripheral blood serum of 60 patients with stage II EH, before and after 1 year of antihypertensive therapy using enzyme-linked immunoassays (at 8:00, 14:00, 20:00, 2:00, and 8:00).
resultsThe research demonstrated that stage II EH patients with a medical case history lasting 10-14 years have a greater content of M-CSF in their peripheral blood serum (p > 0.001). Before the start of antihypertensive therapy, they also have an increased variability in the circadian rhythm of M-CSF content in the bloodstream (when compared with healthy individuals) due to an increase at 20:00, decrease at 2:00 and recovery at 8:00. In 70% of those patients taking antihypertensive medication and have reached their target arterial blood pressure, the cytokine decrease stabilizes at 2:00 but the increase at 20:00 remains unchanged. Thirty percent of patients retained the rhythm characteristics of M-CSF content in the blood serum typical of patients before the start of therapy. This is a predictor of an increase in the five-year risk of developing cardiovascular complications, particularly myocardial infarction and acute cerebrovascular accident, in individuals with a comparable risk of cardiovascular complications or death on the Framingham risk score.
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