PMID- 23190520 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20130510 LR - 20151119 IS - 1744-9987 (Electronic) IS - 1744-9979 (Linking) VI - 16 IP - 6 DP - 2012 Dec TI - High prevalence of anti-apolipoprotein/A-1 autoantibodies in maintenance hemodialysis and association with dialysis vintage. PG - 588-94 LID - 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2012.01102.x [doi] AB - Autoantibodies to apolipoprotein/A-1 (anti-ApoA-1 IgG) have pro-atherogenic properties in patients at high cardiovascular risk, but its prevalence in patients with end-stage kidney disease is unknown. The aims of this single-center, cross-sectional study were to assess the prevalence of anti-ApoA-1 antibodies in patients on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD), and to examine its correlation with inflammatory biomarkers related to atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability and dialysis vintage. To this purpose, anti-ApoA-1 IgG levels and the concentrations of interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-8 (IL-8), monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and C-reactive protein (CRP) were assessed in the sera of 66 MHD patients (mean age: 68 +/- 14 years, 36% women, 32% diabetics). Anti-ApoA-1 IgG positivity (defined as a blood value >/= 97.5(th) percentile of the normal distribution as assessed in healthy blood donors) was 20%. Circulating levels of anti-ApoA-1 IgG correlated positively with dialysis vintage, but not with cardiovascular risk factors or previous cardiovascular events; no significant correlations were found between the anti-ApoA1 IgG levels and circulating levels of IL-6, IL-8, MCP-1, MMP-9, CRP, or low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol. In multivariable linear regression, adjusted for age and sex, only dialysis vintage remained positively and independently associated with anti-ApoA-1 titers (beta = 0.05, 95% CI: 0.006; 0.28, P = 0.049). In conclusion, the prevalence of anti-ApoA-1 IgG is raised in the MHD-population, and positively associated with dialysis vintage, a major determinant of cardiovascular outcome. Whether antiApoA-1 antibodies play a role in the pathophysiology of accelerated atherosclerosis in the MHD-population merits further study. CI - (c) 2012 The Authors. Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis (c) 2012 International Society for Apheresis. FAU - Pruijm, Menno AU - Pruijm M AD - Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. mennopruijm@hotmail.com FAU - Schmidtko, Jan AU - Schmidtko J FAU - Aho, Anthony AU - Aho A FAU - Pagano, Sabrina AU - Pagano S FAU - Roux-Lombard, Pascale AU - Roux-Lombard P FAU - Teta, Daniel AU - Teta D FAU - Burnier, Michel AU - Burnier M FAU - Vuilleumier, Nicolas AU - Vuilleumier N LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20120912 PL - Australia TA - Ther Apher Dial JT - Therapeutic apheresis and dialysis : official peer-reviewed journal of the International Society for Apheresis, the Japanese Society for Apheresis, the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy JID - 101181252 RN - 0 (Apolipoprotein A-I) RN - 0 (Autoantibodies) RN - 0 (Biomarkers) RN - 0 (Immunoglobulin G) SB - IM MH - Aged MH - Aged, 80 and over MH - Apolipoprotein A-I/*immunology MH - Atherosclerosis/immunology/*physiopathology MH - Autoantibodies/*immunology MH - Biomarkers/metabolism MH - Cross-Sectional Studies MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Immunoglobulin G/immunology MH - Inflammation/immunology MH - Kidney Failure, Chronic/therapy MH - Linear Models MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Multivariate Analysis MH - Plaque, Atherosclerotic/immunology MH - Prevalence MH - *Renal Dialysis MH - Risk Factors MH - Time Factors EDAT- 2012/11/30 06:00 MHDA- 2013/05/11 06:00 CRDT- 2012/11/30 06:00 PHST- 2012/11/30 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/11/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/05/11 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2012.01102.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Ther Apher Dial. 2012 Dec;16(6):588-94. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2012.01102.x. Epub 2012 Sep 12.