Cardiovascular risk estimates and risk factors in renal transplant recipients.
Transplant Proc
; 37(4): 1868-70, 2005 May.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15919488
ABSTRACT
Cardiovascular morbidity, including coronary artery disease and left ventricular hypertrophy, and mortality are high in patients following renal transplantation. Cardiovascular disease is thought to be due to traditional (hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus and smoking) as well as nontraditional cardiovascular risk factors (microinflammation). Furthermore, immunosuppressive drugs, namely, calcineurin inhibitors, sirolimus, and steroids, have been reported to adversely affect cardiovascular risk factors (e.g., hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia). Evidence from comparative trials and from conversion studies suggest that blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia after renal transplantation may be differentially affected by the calcineurin inhibitors cyclosporine and tacrolimus. In the European Tacrolimus versus Cyclosporin A Microemulsion Renal Transplantation Study, 557 patients were randomly allocated to therapy with tacrolimus (n = 286) versus cyclosporine (n = 271). In addition, to blood pressure, serum cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood glucose, we estimated the 10-year risk of coronary heart disease (Framingham risk score). Tacrolimus resulted in a significantly lower time-weighted average of serum cholesterol (P < .001), and mean arterial blood pressure (P < .05), but a higher time-weighted average of blood glucose (P < .01) than cyclosporine. Mean 10-year coronary artery disease risk estimate was significantly lower in men treated with tacrolimus, (10.0% versus 13.2%; P < .01) but was unchanged in women (4.7% versus 7.0%). Tacrolimus and cyclosporine microemulsion have compound-specific effects on cardiovascular risk factors that differentially affect the predicted rate of coronary artery disease.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Postoperative Complications
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Cardiovascular Diseases
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Cholesterol
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Kidney Transplantation
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
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Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Transplant Proc
Year:
2005
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Germany