Kmieć Piotr, Zalewska Ewa, Kunicka Katarzyna, Świerblewska Ewa, Sworczak Krzysztof
Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, 17 Smoluchowskiego Street, 80214 Gdańsk, Poland.
Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdańsk, 17 Smoluchowskiego Street, 80214 Gdańsk, Poland.
Biomedicines. 2022 Nov 30;10(12):3075. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10123075.
In recent years, research has emphasized the significance of mild clinical and biochemical presentations of primary aldosteronism (PA) that do not meet current diagnostic criteria of the syndrome. In this study, we assessed the prevalence of autonomous aldosterone (Ald) secretion (AAS), defined as a positive (>1.2 ng/dL/mIU/L) Ald-to-renin ratio (ADRR) combined with unsuppressed Ald (>4 ng/dL), and its associations with blood pressure (BP), cardiac function, and common carotid artery (CCA) intima-media thickness (IMT) in patients with incidentally discovered adrenal adenomas (AI), who were either normo- or hypertensive but had no other cardiovascular disease. Among 332 AI patients hospitalized between November 2018 and December 2019, 63 study participants were recruited (26 normo- and 37 hypertensive), who underwent hormonal examinations, 24 h ambulatory BP measurement, transthoracic echocardiography, and CCA IMT assessment without altering chronic medications. AAS was found in approximately 25% of subjects (seven normo- and nine hypertensive); urinary aldosterone excretion (UAldE) exceeded 10 ug/day in none of the subjects. The left ventricular mass index correlated positively with UAldE in non-diabetic patients (n = 50), and negatively with renin in those without beta blocker therapy (n = 38). The study shows that a pragmatic approach to hormonal assessment (no chronic therapy modification) may reveal patients with AAS. Screening for this subclinical PA presentation is probably more effective with a permissive ADRR than UAldE in such a setting.
近年来,研究强调了原发性醛固酮增多症(PA)轻度临床和生化表现的重要性,这些表现不符合该综合征目前的诊断标准。在本研究中,我们评估了自主醛固酮(Ald)分泌(AAS)的患病率,AAS定义为醛固酮与肾素比值(ADRR)阳性(>1.2 ng/dL/mIU/L)且醛固酮未被抑制(>4 ng/dL),并评估了其与偶然发现肾上腺腺瘤(AI)患者的血压(BP)、心脏功能和颈总动脉(CCA)内膜中层厚度(IMT)之间的关联,这些患者血压正常或高血压,但无其他心血管疾病。在2018年11月至2019年12月住院的332例AI患者中,招募了63例研究参与者(26例血压正常和37例高血压),他们接受了激素检查、24小时动态血压测量、经胸超声心动图检查和CCA IMT评估,且未改变慢性用药。约25%的受试者(7例血压正常和9例高血压)发现有AAS;所有受试者的尿醛固酮排泄量(UAldE)均未超过10 μg/天。在非糖尿病患者(n = 50)中,左心室质量指数与UAldE呈正相关,在未接受β受体阻滞剂治疗的患者(n = 38)中,与肾素呈负相关。该研究表明,一种务实的激素评估方法(不改变慢性治疗)可能会发现有AAS的患者。在这种情况下,对于这种亚临床PA表现的筛查,宽松的ADRR可能比UAldE更有效。