Department of Surgery, Lambe Institute for Translational Research, University of Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.
Department of Surgery, University Hospital Galway, Newcastle Road, H91 YR71 Galway, Ireland.
Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Jul 24;25(15):8042. doi: 10.3390/ijms25158042.
Multimorbidity refers to the presence of two or more chronic diseases and is associated with adverse outcomes for patients. Factors such as an ageing population have contributed to a rise in prevalence of multimorbidity globally; however, multimorbidity is often neglected in clinical guidelines. This is largely because patients with multimorbidity are systematically excluded from clinical trials. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to develop novel biomarkers and methods of prognostication for this cohort of patients. The hallmarks of ageing are now thought to potentiate the pathogenesis of multimorbidity. MicroRNAs are small, regulatory, noncoding RNAs which have been implicated in the pathogenesis and prognostication of numerous chronic diseases; there is a substantial body of evidence now implicating microRNA dysregulation with the different hallmarks of ageing in the aetiology of chronic diseases. This article proposes using the hallmarks of ageing as a framework to develop a panel of microRNAs to assess the prognostic burden of multimorbidity. This putative molecular morbidity score would have many potential applications, including assessing the efficacy of clinical interventions, informing clinical decision making and facilitating wider inclusion of patients with multimorbidity in clinical trials.
多发病是指同时存在两种或两种以上的慢性疾病,会对患者的预后产生不良影响。人口老龄化等因素导致全球多发病的患病率上升;然而,多发病在临床指南中往往被忽视。这主要是因为多发病患者被系统地排除在临床试验之外。因此,迫切需要为这部分患者开发新的生物标志物和预后预测方法。衰老的特征现在被认为会增强多发病的发病机制。microRNAs 是小型的、调节性的、非编码 RNA,它们与许多慢性疾病的发病机制和预后有关;现在有大量证据表明,microRNA 失调与慢性疾病发病机制中的不同衰老特征有关。本文提出使用衰老特征作为框架,开发一组 microRNAs 来评估多发病的预后负担。这个假设的分子发病评分有许多潜在的应用,包括评估临床干预的效果、为临床决策提供信息以及促进更多多发病患者纳入临床试验。
Int J Mol Sci. 2024-7-24
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2011
BMC Public Health. 2021-8-11
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2016-1-19
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2016-3-14
Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand). 2024-4-28