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Published on: October 12, 2017
Lipoprotein(a) immunoassays and their associations with coronary artery calcification and aortic valve calcification
Maarten J G Leening1, Ching F Khan2, Fang Zhu3
1Department of Cardiology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Background:
Lp(a) causes atherosclerosis and degenerative aortic valve disease, but concerns have risen that mass-based assays may beaffected by isoform sizes and provide inaccurate estimates of Lp(a) exposure.
Methods:
We compared contemporary immunoturbidimetric assays reporting either mass-based (Randox) or molar-based (Roche) using data from 5,129 unselected participants from the prospective population-based Rotterdam Study cohort. We studied the association of both Lp(a) measurements with the burden of coronary artery calcium (CAC) and aortic valve calcification (AVC) in a random subset of participants who underwent cardiac CT.
Results:
There was a near perfect linear correlation between Lp(a) concentrations from both immunoassays (R2 98.8%) with most pronounced differences apparent only at very high Lp(a) concentrations. Lp(a) concentrations were related with natural logtransformed Agatston scores (Randox standardized linear β 0.1003, P = 5.6·10-8; Roche standardized linear β 0.1004, P = 5.4·10-8). Lp(a) concentrations were strongly but similarly related to natural log-transformed AVC Agatston scores (Randox standardized linear β 0.1525, P = 9.2·10-16; Roche standardized linear β 0.1539, P = 4.8·10-16).
Conclusion:
We demonstrate that these immunoassays provide interchangeable Lp(a) measurements, and that associations with CAC and AVC were near-identical. This provides opportunities to directly compare findings from research done with either immunoassay.
Trial Registration:
The Rotterdam Study has been entered in the Netherlands National Trial Register and the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform under shared catalog number NTR6831.
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