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ArticleJournal of clinical laboratory analysis2022

A novel circulating biomarker lnc-MALAT1 for acute myocardial infarction: Its relationship with disease risk, features, cytokines, and major adverse cardiovascular events.

Ruirui Li, Jin Jin, Enxiang Liu, Jun Zhang

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Article in Journal of clinical laboratory analysis, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ruirui LiDepartment of Cardiovascular Disease, Cangzhou Central Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Jin JinDepartment of Cardiovascular Disease, Cangzhou People's Hospital, Cangzhou, Hebei, China.
Enxiang LiuDepartment of Cardiovascular Disease, Cangzhou People's Hospital, Cangzhou, Hebei, China.
Jun ZhangDepartment of Cardiovascular Disease, Cangzhou Central Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3787-875X
Cangzhou Central Hospital · CNPeople's Hospital of Cangzhou · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveLong noncoding RNA MALAT1 (lnc-MALAT1) modulates atherosclerotic progression, myocardial ischemia injury, and systematic inflammation, which may be closely involved in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) pathogenesis. Thus, the current study intended to explore the relationship of lnc-MALAT1 to disease risk, features, cytokines, and prognostication in AMI patients.

methodsThis multicenter study consecutively enrolled 160 newly diagnosed AMI patients and 50 controls (angina pectoris patients). Their peripheral blood mononuclear cells were obtained to measure lnc-MALAT1 by RT-qPCR. Serum cytokines in AMI patients were detected by ELISA. In addition, AMI patients were followed up for major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) risk evaluation.

resultsLnc-MALAT1 was higher in AMI patients than in controls (median: 2.245 vs. 0.996, p = 0.004), and it also presented a good capacity for differentiating AMI patients from controls with an area under the curve of 0.823. Lnc-MALAT1 was positively related to C-reactive protein (p = 0.005), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (p = 0.022), cardiac troponin I (p = 0.021), and infarct size (p = 0.007), but not other biochemical indexes in AMI patients. Meanwhile, lnc-MALAT1 was positively associated with tumor necrosis factor-alpha (p = 0.001), interleukin (IL)-6 (p = 0.031), IL-17A (p = 0.042), vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (p = 0.004), and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (p = 0.021) among AMI patients. Importantly, after categorization, lnc-MALAT1 high (vs. low) was related to an elevated MACE accumulation rate (p = 0.035); furthermore, a higher lnc-MALAT1 quartile showed a trend to be linked with an increased MACE accumulation rate (p = 0.092).

conclusionLnc-MALAT1 may serve as a biomarker for AMI risk, infarct size, inflammation and prognosis, but further validation by large-scale studies is needed.

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Cell-Free Nucleic AcidsMyocardial InfarctionRNA, Long NoncodingBiomarkersCytokinesHumansInflammationInterleukin-6Leukocytes, MononuclearBiomarkersCell-Free Nucleic AcidsCytokinesInterleukin-6MALAT1 long non-coding RNA, humanRNA, Long Noncodingacute myocardial infarctiondisease riskfeatureslnc-MALAT1MACE

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