Involvement of FFA Metabolism and Insulin Resistance in Cardiac Death

Completed

• Conditions: Kidney Disease; Hemodialysis; Coronary Artery Disease

• Registration Number: NCT01068080
• Lead Sponsor: Toujinkai Hospital

Brief Summary

The investigators evaluated predictive values of myocardial fatty acid metabolism and insulin resistance for cardiac death of hemodialysis patients with normal coronary arteries.

Detailed Description

Dialysis patients have extraordinarily high mortality rates. Cardiac diseases play an important role in deaths among end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing renal replacement therapy. Previous studies have shown that maintenance hemodialysis patients have high prevalence of obstructive coronary artery disease. While obstructive coronary artery disease is undoubtedly involved in cardiac deaths induced by acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure and in sudden cardiac death, cardiac death can occur in hemodialysis patients who have apparently no pre-existing obstructive coronary artery disease. However, few studies have investigated the factors which are useful for stratifying the risk of cardiac death in dialysis patients with normal coronary arteries.

We recently showed that visualizing severely impaired myocardial fatty acid metabolism on images can help not only to detect obstructive coronary artery disease \[8\], but also to identify patients at high risk of cardiac death among hemodialysis patients without coronary intervention or old myocardial infarction and among those with coronary revascularization by percutaneous coronary artery intervention. In addition, combination of impaired cardiac fatty acid metabolism with insulin resistance, which is one of the risk factors related with coronary atherosclerosis, may contribute to left ventricular dysfunction in patients with maintenance hemodialysis with normal coronary arteries. Impaired myocardial fatty acid metabolism and insulin resistance, both of which reduce the synthesis of myocardial adenosine triphosphate (ATP), are likely to be involved in fatal cardiac events by causing deficiency of myocardial energy supply. In this study, we prospectively investigated the potential of myocardial fatty acid metabolism and insulin resistance to predict cardiac death in hemodialysis patients without pre-existing obstructive coronary artery disease.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2000-10
• Study Start: 2001-01
• Study Completion: 2004-12
• Study First Submitted: 2010-02-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-02-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2010-02-11
• Study First Posted: 2010-02-12
• Last Update Posted: 2010-02-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 155

Inclusion Criteria

• Hemodialysis patients who had normal coronary arteries identified by coronary angiography and underwent the examination of BMIPP SPECT and measurement of HOMA-IR as a parameter of insulin resistance.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who had not done BMIPP SPECT within one month of coronary angiography
• Congestive heart failure (NYHA 3-4)
• Significant valvular heart disease
• Pacemaker
• Idiopathic cardiomyopathy
• Malignancy
• Patients who had not measured HOMA-IR within one month after coronary angiography
• Patients receiving extrinsic insulin or medication of sulfonylurea

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Cardiac death

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
All-cause death

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Toujinkai Hospital; 🇯🇵 Kyoto, Japan