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Associations between non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and renal pathological changes in a population
Eri Ataka1, Yuta Matsukuma1, Kenji Ueki1
1Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University (Ataka, Matsukuma, Ueki, Tsuchimoto, and Kitazono), Fukuoka, Japan.
Background:
Dyslipidemia has been identified as a crucial factor for atherosclerotic disease. Recently, evidence for involvement of non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (nHDL-C) in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease has been accumulating, and an association with the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has been reported. However, few studies have investigated the relationships between nHDL-C levels and renal pathological changes.
Objective:
To investigate the associations between nHDL-C levels and renal pathological changes in living kidney donors with apparently normal kidney function.
Methods:
In this cross-sectional study, we examined time-zero biopsy specimens from 345 living kidney donors and evaluated the relationships between serum nHDL-C levels and renal pathological changes, including arteriolar hyalinization, luminal stenosis of small-to-medium arteries, global glomerulosclerosis, and glomerular hypertrophy. We also evaluated the predictive performance of nHDL-C by calculating the net reclassification improvement (NRI) vs low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C).
Results:
The distribution of nHDL-C levels was as follows: <100 mg/dL in 15 patients (4%), 100 to 129 mg/dL in 84 patients (24%), 130 to 169 mg/dL in 160 patients (46%), and ≥170 mg/dL in 86 patients (25%). High nHDL-C was significantly associated with the prevalence of severe luminal stenosis (multivariable-adjusted odds ratio [OR] for nHDL-C ≥170 mg/dL vs nHDL-C 100 to 129 mg/dL: 3.62 [95% CI: 1.09-12.0]). Higher nHDL-C level was also associated with glomerular hypertrophy (OR per 10 nHDL-C increase: 1.19 [1.00-1.41]). In the NRI analyses, the model with nHDL-C added to the basic atherosclerotic factors exhibited better predictive performance for severe luminal stenosis than the model with LDL-C added to these factors (continuous NRI: 0.45 [0.13-0.78]).
Conclusion:
High nHDL-C levels are potentially associated with renal pathological injury in subjects without CKD.
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