PMID- 35676585 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221021 LR - 20221021 IS - 1614-7499 (Electronic) IS - 0944-1344 (Linking) VI - 29 IP - 51 DP - 2022 Nov TI - Effects of heavy metals on cardiovascular diseases in pre and post-menopausal women: from big data to molecular mechanism involved. PG - 77635-77655 LID - 10.1007/s11356-022-21208-8 [doi] AB - To assess the link between a mixed heavy metal (cadmium, lead, and mercury) and the 10-year risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in pre- and post-menopausal Korean women aged >/=20 years, as well as identify potential molecular mechanisms of mixed heavy metal-induced CVDs. Multivariate linear regression, weighted quantile sum (WQS) regression, quantile g-computation (gqcomp), and Bayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR) models were used to examine the effects of mixed heavy metals and the 10-year risk of CVDs. The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database, MicroRNA ENrichment TURned NETwork, and the microRNA sponge generator and tester were used as the key data-mining approaches. In our BKMR analysis, we found that the overall effect of mixed heavy metals was linked to the 10-year risk of CVDs in postmenopausal women in the upper 20(th) percentiles and in premenopausal women in the upper 55(th) percentiles. Mercury was identified as the key chemical for the 10-year risk of CVDs in pre- and postmenopausal women. In silico analysis revealed that a heavy metal mixture interacted with six genes associated with CVD development. Physical interactions (77.6%) were found to be the most common among CVD-related genes induced by the heavy metals studied. Several pathways have been identified as the main molecular mechanisms that could be affected by studied heavy metals and are implicated in the development of CVDs (e.g., lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, lipoprotein metabolism, cholesterol metabolism, and cardiovascular disease). ALB, APOE, ATF5, and CREB3L3 were the key genes and transcription factors related to CVDs induced by the mixture of the investigated heavy metals, respectively. The two miRNAs with the highest interaction and expression in the development of CVDs were hsa-miR-199a-5p and hsa-miR-199a-3p. We also designed and tested miRNA sponge sequences for these miRNAs. The cutoff thresholds for each heavy metal level linked with the 10-year risk of CVDs were described. A mixture of heavy metal exposures, especially mercury, was more strongly linked with the 10-year risk of CVDs in postmenopausal women than in premenopausal women. Early interventions in postmenopausal women should be considered to reduce CVD risks. CI - (c) 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. FAU - Nguyen, Hai Duc AU - Nguyen HD AD - Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sunchon National University, Sunchon, 57922, Jeonnam, Republic of Korea. FAU - Kim, Min-Sun AU - Kim MS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9952-0038 AD - Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sunchon National University, Sunchon, 57922, Jeonnam, Republic of Korea. minsun@scnu.ac.kr. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220609 PL - Germany TA - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int JT - Environmental science and pollution research international JID - 9441769 RN - 00BH33GNGH (Cadmium) RN - 0 (Metals, Heavy) RN - FXS1BY2PGL (Mercury) RN - 0 (MicroRNAs) RN - 0 (Lipids) RN - 0 (Transcription Factors) RN - 97C5T2UQ7J (Cholesterol) RN - 0 (Apolipoproteins E) RN - 0 (CREB3L3 protein, human) RN - 0 (Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Female MH - *Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology MH - Cadmium/analysis MH - Postmenopause MH - Bayes Theorem MH - Big Data MH - *Metals, Heavy MH - *Mercury/analysis MH - *MicroRNAs MH - Lipids MH - Transcription Factors MH - Cholesterol MH - Apolipoproteins E MH - Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cardiovascular diseases OT - Heavy metals OT - Molecular mechanisms OT - Pre and post menopause EDAT- 2022/06/09 06:00 MHDA- 2022/10/22 06:00 CRDT- 2022/06/08 23:34 PHST- 2022/03/22 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/05/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/06/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/10/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/06/08 23:34 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s11356-022-21208-8 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s11356-022-21208-8 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Nov;29(51):77635-77655. doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-21208-8. Epub 2022 Jun 9.