Powrózek Tomasz, Mazurek Marcin, Skwarek-Dziekanowska Aneta, Sobieszek Grzegorz, Maffeo Debora, Frullanti Elisa, Małecka-Massalska Teresa
Department of Human Physiology of the Chair of Preclinical Sciences, Medical University in Lublin, Radziwillowska 11 street, 20-080, Lublin, Poland.
Department of Cardiology, 1 st Military Clinical Hospital with the Outpatient Clinic, Lublin, Poland.
J Cardiovasc Transl Res. 2025 Jul 10. doi: 10.1007/s12265-025-10658-3.
Cachexia, often seen in chronic heart failure (CHF), worsens patient outcomes and survival. Early detection is crucial, and circulating miRNAs offer potential as biomarkers linking heart function, inflammation, and cachexia. This study aimed to identify plasma miRNAs associated with cachexia in CHF and assess their diagnostic and prognostic value. Plasma samples from 150 newly diagnosed CHF patients were analyzed using next-generation sequencing (NGS) and validated by qRT-PCR. A signature of elevated miRNA-628 and reduced miRNA-6803 (↑miRNA-628+↓miRNA-6803) was associated with poor nutritional status, abnormal lab results, and higher cachexia risk. Combining this signature with inflammatory markers perfectly distinguished cachectic from non-cachectic patients (AUC=1.0). This profile increased cachexia risk 19-fold and was linked to significantly shorter survival (median 14 vs. 41 months). Thus, the identified miRNA signature offers strong predictive and diagnostic potential and could complement clinical assessments of CHF patients' nutritional status.
恶病质常见于慢性心力衰竭(CHF)患者中,会使患者的预后和生存率恶化。早期检测至关重要,循环中的微小RNA(miRNA)有望成为连接心脏功能、炎症和恶病质的生物标志物。本研究旨在鉴定与CHF患者恶病质相关的血浆miRNA,并评估其诊断和预后价值。对150例新诊断的CHF患者的血浆样本进行了下一代测序(NGS)分析,并通过定量逆转录聚合酶链反应(qRT-PCR)进行验证。miRNA-628升高和miRNA-6803降低(↑miRNA-628+↓miRNA-6803)的特征与营养状况不佳、实验室检查结果异常以及更高的恶病质风险相关。将这一特征与炎症标志物相结合能够完美地区分恶病质患者和非恶病质患者(曲线下面积=1.0)。这一特征使恶病质风险增加了19倍,并且与显著缩短的生存期相关(中位数分别为14个月和41个月)。因此,所鉴定的miRNA特征具有很强的预测和诊断潜力,可补充对CHF患者营养状况的临床评估。