A total of 306 NSTEMI patients and 410 healthy controls were included in the study. The mean age of NSTEMI patients was 63.5 ± 11.72 years. Baseline clinical characteristics of the study patients are shown in Table 1. BMI, fasting glucose, triglycerides, total cholesterol, LDL, and HDL cholesterol showed higher statistical significance between NSTEMI patients and healthy controls (P < 0.001). All NSTEMI patients are hypertensive and diabetic. The heart rate (HR) (was significantly higher in patients compared to controls (p = 0.013).
Table 1
The characteristics of NSTEMI Patients and healthy controls
| NNSTEMI Patients (n = 306) | Healthy Controls (n = 410) | P |
Mean age (years) | 63.5 ± 11.72 | 62.12 ± 9.75 | 0.085 |
Sex (male/female) | 163/143 | 228/182 | 0.292 |
Smoking, n (%) | 220(71.9) | 75(18.3) | < 0.001 |
BMI (kg/m2) | 29.01 ± 6.07 | 26.84 ± 4.21 | < 0.001 |
Fasting glucose (mmol/L) | 6.08 ± 1.45 | 4.75 ± 1.28 | < 0.001 |
Total cholesterol (mmol/L) | 8.81 ± 1.84 | 4.18 ± 0.94 | < 0.001 |
LDL-C (mmol/L) | 6.17 ± 1.50 | 2.26 ± 0.24 | < 0.001 |
HDL-C (mmol/L) | 1.95 ± 0.23 | 1.10 ± 0.21 | < 0.001 |
Triglycerides(mmol/L) | 2.28 ± 0.93 | 1.32 ± 0.59 | < 0.001 |
HbA1c(%) | 9.2 ± 1.65 | 4.6 ± 0.75 | < 0.001 |
SBP (mm Hg) | 158.76 ± 23.64 | 128.06 ± 7.64 | < 0.001 |
DBP(mm Hg) | 97.38 ± 15.50 | 81.6 ± 6.10 | < 0.001 |
HR( bpm) | 78.9 ± 15.5 | 76.7 ± 5.2 | 0.013 |
RPP( mm Hg. Bpm) | 12488.2 ± 3062.2 | 9830.4 ± 918.4 | < 0.001 |
Serum ACE activity (U/L) | 96.85 ± 34.30 | 87.35 ± 27.40 | < 0.001 |
Peak cTnI(mg/l) | 43.20 ± 5.97 | 0.0 ± 0.00 | < 0.001 |
LDH (mg/l) | 1307.45 ± 1575.73 | 291.83 ± 64.84 | < 0.001 |
CPK (mg/l) | 1593.81 ± 2093.46 | 44.37 ± 32.37 | < 0.001 |
CRP (mg/l) | 7.38 ± 5.1 | 3.32 ± 1.29 | < 0.001 |
CD (µmol of hydroperoxyde/mg of protein) | 213.34 ± 86.5 | 88.05 ± 30.44 | < 0.001 |
MDA (µM) | 0.52 ± 0.23 | 0.33 ± 0.22 | < 0.001 |
GPx(U/mg of protein) | 24.55 ± 9.56 | 51.08 ± 11.08 | < 0.001 |
Current Medications | | | |
Statins, n (%) | 216 (70.6) | 0(0) | |
Anti-aggregant, n (%) | 271(88.6) | 0(0) | |
ACE-I, n (%) | 269(87.9) | 0(0) | |
BETA-Blocker, n (%) | 256(83.7) | 0(0) | |
Hypoglycemic drug, n (%) | 248(81.1) | 0(0) | |
Fibrate, n (%) | 198(64.7) | 0(0) | |
BMI: Body Mass Index; HR: Heart Rate; RPP: Rate pressure product; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; SBP: Systolic Blood Pressure; DBP: Diastolic Blood Pressure; Creatine phosphokinase: CPK; Reactive protein C: CRP; Lactate dehydrogenase: LDH; cTnI: cardiac troponin T; MDA : Malondialdehyde; CD: Conjugated Diene; GPx: Glutathione Peroxidase . |
The level of creatine phosphokinase (CPK), reactive protein C (CRP), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) were significantly higher in NSTEMI patients than in healthy controls (Table 1).
The serum ACE activity and the peak cTnI was significantly increased in NSTEMI patients (p < 0.001) (Fig. 1). We observed a statistically significant increase in malondialdehyde (MDA) and conjugated dienes (DC) in plasma in NSTEMI patients than in healthy controls (p < 0.001). The activity of glutathione peroxidase (GPx) in plasma was significantly lower in the plasma of patients than in healthy controls (p < 0.001) (Fig. 2).
The NSTEMI patients received anti-aggregant medication (88.6%), angiotensin-converting
enzyme inhibitor (ACE-I) (87.9%), beta-Blockers (83.7%), statins (70.6%) and fibrates medication (64.7%).
Pearson's correlation rank was then used to evaluate the correlations between diastolic BP, systolic BP, lipid profile, cardiac biomarkers, and other parameters in NSTEMI patients (as defined in Table 1).
In addition, a positive correlation was found between serum ACE activity and, total-cholesterol (r = 0.129; p = 0.024), cTnI (r = 0.903; p = 0.001), DC (r = 0.940; p = 0.001), MDA (r = 0.488; p = 0.001) and BMI (r = 0.168; p = 0.003) in NSTEMI patients. Serum ACE activity was negatively correlated to GPx (r= -0.926; p = 0.001) (Fig. 3).
The diastolic BP was correlated negatively with diabetes duration (r= -0.128; p = 0.026) and GPx activity (r= -0.199; p = 0.001), and positively with LDH (r = 0,114; p = 0.047), CPK (r = 0,120; p = 0.036), serum ACE activity (r = 0,284; p = 0.001), DC level (r = 0.286; p = 0.001), peak cTnI (r = 0.181; p = 0.001) and BMI (r = 0.160; p = 0.005) in NSTEMI patients.
The systolic BP was correlated positively to, smoking (r = 0,155; p = 0.007), LDL-cholesterol (r = 0,124; p = 0.030), serum ACE activity (r = 0,114; p = 0.046) and negatively with diabetes duration (r= -0,125; p = 0.029) in NSTEMI patients.
The rate pressure product (RPP) was correlated negatively with Fasting glucose (r= -0.144; p = 0.012), HbA1c (r= -0.117; p = 0.041) and GPx activity (r= -0.148; p = 0.009), and positively with smoking (r = 0,197; p = 0.001), BMI (r = 0,219; p = 0.001), peak cTnI (r = 0.131; p = 0.022), serum ACE activity (r = 0,190; p = 0.001) and DC level (r = 0.189; p = 0.001) in patients.
Regarding healthy controls, no correlation was found between the diastolic or systolic BP with serum ACE activity, peak cTnI, MDA, DC level, GPx activity, and lipid parameters.