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Wei-Ke Kuo1, Yu-Chih Liu1,2, Chien-Ming Chu1
1Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan.
Background:
The BODE index is a multidimensional grading system for predicting the prognoses of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This study investigated whether an amino acids-based metabolic profile developed for heart failure patients (including histidine, ornithine, phenylalanine, and leucine) could identify COPD patients and further discriminates COPD patients in advanced BODE stages.
Methods:
Ultra-performance liquid chromatography was performed on 119 participants, including 75 COPD patients at different BODE stages and 44 normal controls. Albumin, pre-albumin, transferrin, high sensitivity C-reactive protein, and hand grip strength were also measured. Receiver operating characteristic curves and area under curves were used for estimation.
Results:
The BODE points in our patients were 3.29 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.74-3.85]. Compared to normal controls, COPD patients had lower leucine but higher ornithine levels. A COPD score, developed based on leucine and ornithine, significantly discriminated COPD from normal controls [odds ratio (OR) = 2.71, 95% CI = 1.83-4.04, p <0.001]. A COPD score of ≥ 3.00 had an OR of 15.58 (95% CI = 5.96-40.73, p <0.001). In COPD patients from BODE 1 to BODE 4, the levels of histidine, ornithine and phenylalanine increased significantly. In multivariable analysis, histidine and phenylalanine were independently able to distinguish BODE stages 3 and 4 from BODE 1 and were adopted to develop a metabolic score. Metabolic scores identified patients at BODE 3 and 4 (OR = 2.74, 95% CI =1.41-5.29, p = 0.003) better than hand grip strength, high sensitive C-reactive protein, albumin, pre-albumin, and transferrin value. A metabolic score of ≥9.53 significantly discriminated BODE 3 and 4 from BODE 1 and 2 (OR = 8.56, 95% CI = 2.77-26.39, p <0.001).
Conclusion:
Amino acid-based COPD score and metabolic score discriminate COPD patients from normal controls, and identify patients in advanced stages of COPD.
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