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- Ekerstad, Niklas, et al.
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Clinical Frailty Scale classes are independently associated with 6-month mortality for patients after acute myocardial infarction
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Heart Journal. - : Oxford University Press. - 2048-8726 .- 2048-8734. ; 11:2, s. 89-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims: Data on the prognostic value of frailty to guide clinical decision-making for patients with myocardial infarction (MI) are scarce. To analyse the association between frailty classification, treatment patterns, in-hospital outcomes, and 6-month mortality in a large population of patients with MI.Methods and results: An observational, multicentre study with a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data using the SWEDEHEART registry. In total, 3381 MI patients with a level of frailty assessed using the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS-9) were included. Of these patients, 2509 (74.2%) were classified as non-vulnerable non-frail (CFS 1–3), 446 (13.2%) were vulnerable non-frail (CFS 4), and 426 (12.6%) were frail (CFS 5–9). Frailty and non-frail vulnerability were associated with worse in-hospital outcomes compared with non-frailty, i.e. higher rates of mortality (13.4% vs. 4.0% vs. 1.8%), cardiogenic shock (4.7% vs. 2.5% vs. 1.9%), and major bleeding (4.5% vs. 2.7% vs. 1.1%) (allP < 0.001), and less frequent use of evidence-based therapies. In Cox regression analyses, frailty was strongly and independently associated with 6-month mortality compared with non-frailty, after adjustment for age, sex, the GRACE risk score components, and other potential risk factors [hazard ratio (HR) 3.32, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.30–4.79]. A similar pattern was seen for vulnerable non-frail patients (fully adjusted HR 2.07, 95% CI1.41–3.02).Conclusion: Frailty assessed with the CFS was independently and strongly associated with all-cause 6-month mortality, also after comprehensive adjustment for baseline differences in other risk factors. Similarly, non-frail vulnerability was independently associated with higher mortality compared with those with preserved functional ability.
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- Grönwall, Caroline, et al.
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A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Relationship Between Different IgG and IgA Anti-Modified Protein Autoantibodies in Rheumatoid Arthritis
- 2021
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Immunology. - : Frontiers Media S.A.. - 1664-3224. ; 12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of rheumatoid factor (RF) and anti-citrullinated protein autoantibodies (ACPA) with different fine-specificities. Yet, other serum anti-modified protein autoantibodies (AMPA), e.g. anti-carbamylated (Carb), -acetylated (KAc), and malondialdehyde acetaldehyde (MAA) modified protein antibodies, have been described. In this comprehensive study, we analyze 30 different IgG and IgA AMPA reactivities to Cit, Carb, KAc, and MAA antigens detected by ELISA and autoantigen arrays in N=1985 newly diagnosed RA patients. Association with patient characteristics such as smoking and disease activity were explored. Carb and KAc reactivities by different assays were primarily seen in patients also positive for anti-citrulline reactivity. Modified vimentin (mod-Vim) peptides were used for direct comparison of different AMPA reactivities, revealing that IgA AMPA recognizing mod-Vim was mainly detected in subsets of patients with high IgG anti-Cit-Vim levels and a history of smoking. IgG reactivity to acetylation was mainly detected in a subset of patients with Cit and Carb reactivity. Anti-acetylated histone reactivity was RA-specific and associated with high anti-CCP2 IgG levels, multiple ACPA fine-specificities, and smoking status. This reactivity was also found to be present in CCP2+ RA-risk individuals without arthritis. Our data further demonstrate that IgG autoreactivity to MAA was increased in RA compared to controls with highest levels in CCP2+ RA, but was not RA-specific, and showed low correlation with other AMPA. Anti-MAA was instead associated with disease activity and was not significantly increased in CCP2+ individuals at risk of RA. Notably, RA patients could be subdivided into four different subsets based on their AMPA IgG and IgA reactivity profiles. Our serology results were complemented by screening of monoclonal antibodies derived from single B cells from RA patients for the same antigens as the RA cohort. Certain CCP2+ clones had Carb or Carb+KAc+ multireactivity, while such reactivities were not found in CCP2- clones. We conclude that autoantibodies exhibiting different patterns of ACPA fine-specificities as well as Carb and KAc reactivity are present in RA and may be derived from multireactive B-cell clones. Carb and KAc could be considered reactivities within the "Cit-umbrella" similar to ACPA fine-specificities, while MAA reactivity is distinctly different.
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- Malmstedt, Jonas, et al.
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Outcome after leg bypass surgery for critical limb ischemia is poor in patients with diabetes
- 2008
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Ingår i: Diabetes Care. - Alexandria, VA, United States : American Diabetes Association. - 0149-5992 .- 1935-5548. ; 31:5, s. 887-892
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE—Our aim was to assess the risk of major amputation or death after leg bypass surgery for critical limb ischemia in patients with diabetes versus those without.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—We did a population-based cohort study by linking nationwide databases in Sweden. We identified 1,840 patients in the Swedish Vascular Registry who had their first leg bypass procedure for critical lower-limb ischemia between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2003—742 with and 1,098 without diabetes. Our primary end point was first major amputation of the limb on which bypass was done or death. Individuals were followed up until 31 December 2005 through the National Hospital Patient Registry and the Cause-of-Death Registry.RESULTS—Incidence of ipsilateral amputation or death was higher in patients with diabetes than in patients without (30.2 vs. 22 events/100 person-years; crude hazard ratio [HR] 1.32 [95% CI 1.17–1.50]). Similarly, individuals with diabetes had a shorter amputation-free survival period than individuals without (2.3 years, range 1.9–2.8 vs. 3.4 years, range 3.1–3.7). Adjustment for demographic characteristics, comorbidities, and risk factors for amputation or death did not substantially affect the risk (HR 1.46 [95% CI 1.26–1.69]). The effect was more pronounced in male (1.75 [1.47–2.08]) than in female (1.35 [1.11–1.64]) patients after adjustment for age.CONCLUSIONS—Diabetes is associated with lower amputation–free survival after leg bypass for critical limb ischemia. Patients with diabetes and limb ischemia need intensified treatment of diabetes-related risk factors to improve outcome.
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- Simonsson, Moa, et al.
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Temporal trends in bleeding events in acute myocardial infarction : insights from the SWEDEHEART registry
- 2020
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Ingår i: European Heart Journal. - : Oxford University Press. - 0195-668X .- 1522-9645. ; 41:7, s. 833-843
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- AIMS: To describe the time trends of in-hospital and out-of-hospital bleeding parallel to the development of new treatments and ischaemic outcomes over the last 20 years in a nationwide myocardial infarction (MI) population.METHODS AND RESULTS: Patients with acute MI (n = 371 431) enrolled in the SWEDEHEART registry from 1995 until May 2018 were selected and evaluated for in-hospital bleeding and out-of-hospital bleeding events at 1 year. In-hospital bleeding increased from 0.5% to a peak at 2% 2005/2006 and thereafter slightly decreased to a new plateau around 1.3% by the end of the study period. Out-of-hospital bleeding increased in a stepwise fashion from 2.5% to 3.5 % in the middle of the study period and to 4.8% at the end of the study period. The increase in both in-hospital and out-of-hospital bleeding was parallel to increasing use of invasive strategy and adjunctive antithrombotic treatment, dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), and potent DAPT, while the decrease in in-hospital bleeding from 2007 to 2010 was parallel to implementation of bleeding avoidance strategies. In-hospital re-infarction decreased from 2.8% to 0.6% and out-of-hospital MI decreased from 12.6% to 7.1%. The composite out-of-hospital MI, cardiovascular death, and stroke decreased in a similar fashion from 18.4% to 9.1%.CONCLUSION: During the last 20 years, the introduction of invasive and more intense antithrombotic treatment has been associated with an increase in bleeding events but concomitant there has been a substantial greater reduction of ischaemic events including improved survival.
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- Svärd, Anna, et al.
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Associations to smoking and shared epitope differ between IgA and IgG class antibodies to cyclic citrullinated peptides in early rheumatoid arthritis
- 2015
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Ingår i: Arthritis & Rheumatology. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 2326-5191 .- 2326-5205. ; 67:8, s. 2032-2037
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background Smoking and HLA-DRB1/shared epitope (SE) are well-known interacting risk factors for developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with IgG anticitrullinated protein/peptide antibodies (ACPA). It remains unknown to what extent SE-genes and smoking associate with mucosal immune responses.Objectives This study was done to explore relations between cigarette smoking habits and SE versus circulating IgA and IgG anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (anti-CCP) among early RA patients.Methods Patients from two early-RA cohorts were analysed, EIRA-1 (n=1663) and TIRA-2 (n=199). The patients were grouped into four subsets based on anti-CCP: IgG-/IgA-, IgG-/IgA+, IgG+/IgA- and IgG+/IgA+. Interaction between smoking and SE was calculated by the attributable proportion due to deviation from additivity. Analyzed controls (n=1100) were randomly selected from the EIRA-1 study base.Results Anti-CCP occurrence was similar in the two cohorts. Only in EIRA was IgA anti-CCP detected alone in a minority of cases (3%). Smoking was significantly overrepresented among IgA anti-CCP+ patients with or without IgG-class anti-CCP, but not with IgG anti-CCP alone. Presence of SE genes was overrepresented among IgG anti-CCP+ patients with or without IgA-class anti-CCP, but not with IgA anti-CCP alone. Smoking and SE interacted regarding the risk of IgG+/IgA+ RA (AP=0.5, 95 % CI=0.4-0.6), whereas no significant interaction was observed regarding IgG-/IgA+ or IgG+/IgA- RA.Conclusions Association between cigarette smoking and anti-CCP is limited to cases with IgA-class antibodies in addition to IgG anti-CCP. This suggests a causal relation between chronic mucosal irritation/inflammation, induction of a systemic IgA anti-CCP response and subsequent development of RA.
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- Szummer, Karolina, et al.
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Improved outcomes in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction during the last 20 years are related to implementation of evidence-based treatments : experiences from the SWEDEHEART registry 1995-2014
- 2017
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Ingår i: European Heart Journal. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0195-668X .- 1522-9645. ; 38:41, s. 3056-3065
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims Impact of changes of treatments on outcomes in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients in real-life health care has not been documented. Methods and results All STEMI cases (n=105.674) registered in the nation-wide SWEDEHEART registry between 1995 and 2014 were included and followed for fatal and non-fatal outcomes for up to 20 years. Most changes in treatment and outcomes occurred from 1994 to 2008. Evidence-based treatments increased: reperfusion from 66.2 to 81.7%; primary percutaneous coronary intervention: 4.5 to 78.0%; dual antiplatelet therapy from 0 to 89.6%; statin: 14.1 to 93.6%; beta-blocker: 78.2 to 91.0%, and angiotensin-converting-enzyme/angiotensin-2-receptor inhibitors: 40.8 to 85.2% (P-value for-trend<0.001 for all). One-year mortality decreased from 22.1 to 14.1%. Standardized incidence ratio compared with the general population decreased from 5.54 to 3.74 (P<0.001). Cardiovascular (CV) death decreased from 20.1 to 11.1%, myocardial infarction (MI) from 11.5 to 5.8%; stroke from 2.9 to 2.1%; heart failure from 7.1 to 6.2%. After standardization for differences in demography and baseline characteristics, the change of 1-year CV-death or MI corresponded to a linear trend of 0.915 (95% confidence interval: 0.906-0.923) per 2-year period which no longer was significant, 0.997 (0.984-1.009), after adjustment for changes in treatment. The changes in treatment and outcomes were most pronounced from 1994 to 2008. Conclusion Gradual implementation of new and established evidence-based treatments in STEMI patients during the last 20 years has been associated with prolonged survival and lower risk of recurrent ischaemic events, although a plateauing is seen since around 2008.
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- Szummer, Karolina, et al.
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Relations between implementation of new treatments and improved outcomes in patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction during the last 20 years : experiences from SWEDEHEART registry 1995 to 2014
- 2018
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Ingår i: European Heart Journal. - : OXFORD UNIV PRESS. - 0195-668X .- 1522-9645. ; 39:42, s. 3766-3776
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims We assessed the changes in short- and long-term outcomes and their relation to implementation of new evidence- based treatments in all patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) in Sweden over 20 years. Methods and results Cases with NSTEMI (n = 205 693) between 1995 and 2014 were included from the nationwide Swedish Web-System for Enhancement and Development of Evidence-Based Care in Heart Disease Evaluated According to Recommended Therapies (SWEDEHEART) registry. During 20 years in-hospital invasive procedures increased from 1.9% to 73.2%, percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass grafting 6.5% to 58.1%, dual antiplatelet medication 0% to 72.7%, statins 13.3% to 85.6%, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors/angiotensin II receptor blocker 36.8% to 75.5%. The standardized 1-year mortality ratio compared with a control population decreased from 5.53 [95% confidence interval (CI) 5.30-5.75] to 3.03 (95% CI 2.89-3.19). If patients admitted the first 2 years were modelled to receive the same invasive treatments as the last 2 years the expected mortality/ myocardial infarction (MI) rate would be reduced from 33.0% to 25.0%. After adjusting for differences in baseline characteristics, the change of 1-year cardiovascular death/MI corresponded to a linearly decreasing odds ratio trend of 0.930 (95% CI 0.926-0.935) per 2-year period. This trend was substantially attenuated [0.970 (95% CI 0.964-0.975)] after adjusting for changes in coronary interventions, and almost eliminated [0.988 (95% CI 0.982-0.994)] after also adjusting for changes in discharge medications. Conclusion In NSTEMI patients during the last 20 years, there has been a substantial improvement in long-term survival and re- duction in the risk of new cardiovascular events. These improvements seem mainly explained by the gradual uptake and widespread use of in-hospital coronary interventions and evidence-based long-term medications.
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- Tuyet Vuong, Mai, et al.
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Genetic evidence for involvement of adaptive immunity in the development of IgA nephropathy: MHC class II alleles are protective in a Caucasian population
- 2013
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Ingår i: Human Immunology. - : Elsevier. - 0198-8859 .- 1879-1166. ; 74:8, s. 957-960
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is evidence suggesting that IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is an immunological disease. The role of FILA class II DR beta 1 (DRB1) has previously not been well studied. The aim of our study was to investigate the association of HLA-DRB1 variants with IgAN in a Swedish Caucasian cohort. Our study consisted of 213 patients with biopsy proven IgAN, all of self-reported Caucasian ancestry. As a control cohort, 1569 healthy subjects from the same population in Sweden were included. HLA-DRB1 low-resolution genotyping was performed and odds ratios were calculated to assess the risk. less thanbrgreater than less thanbrgreater thanIn an allelic model the HLA-DRB1*03 and *10, demonstrated association for IgAN after correction for multiple comparison, with subsequent OR = 0.54 (95% CI 0.37-0.78) and 3.44 (95% Cl 1.67-7.07). When the influence of risk allelic groups was adjusted for protective allelic groups and vice versa, only a protective effect of HLA-DRB1*03 remained significant. less thanbrgreater than less thanbrgreater thanIn conclusion, the variants of HLA-DRB1 were associated with IgAN of which the HLA-DRB1*03 revealed a strong protective effect for IgAN. Our data replicates finding from other Caucasian populations and suggest that involvement of adaptive immunity may be of importance in the development of the disease.
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- Westerlind, Helga, et al.
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The association between autoantibodies and risk for venous thromboembolic events among patients with rheumatoid arthritis
- 2023
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Ingår i: Rheumatology. - : Oxford University Press. - 1462-0324 .- 1462-0332. ; 62:6, s. 2106-2112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives To assess the association between venous thromboembolic (VTE) events and autoantibodies, following patients from RA diagnosis, measuring occurrence, levels and collective load of different autoantibodies against post-translational protein modifications, in particular recognizing citrullination (e.g. citrullinated fibrinogen) and RF by isotype. Methods A cohort of 2814 patients with newly diagnosed RA were followed for incident VTE through register linkages. Sera from RA diagnosis were centrally analysed for antibodies to second generation cyclic citrullinated peptides (anti-CCP2), 20 anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) fine-specificities, antibodies to additional protein modifications (carbamylation and acetylation) and RF by isotype. Association between baseline serology status and future VTE was analysed using Cox regression adjusted for age, sex and calendar period of RA diagnosis, overall and stratified by anti-CCP2 and RF positivity. Results During a median 16 years of follow-up, 213 first-ever VTE events were registered (5.0/1000 person-years). IgG anti-CCP2 (present in 65% of cohort) associated with VTE (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.33, 95% CI: 1.00, 1.78), in a dose-response manner. The risk of VTE increased with number of ACPA fine-specificities. IgM RF, but no other RF isotypes, associated with VTE (HR = 1.38, 95% CI: 1.04, 1.82). The associations were independent from smoking and HLA-DRB1 shared epitope alleles. None of the carbamylated or acetylated antibody reactivities associated with VTE. Conclusion Anti-CCP2, load of ACPA fine-specificities and IgM RF at RA diagnosis are associated with an increased risk of future VTE in RA. Antibodies to citrullinated fibrinogen did not differ substantially from other ACPA fine-specificities. Autoreactivity to other post-translational modifications was not associated with VTE risk.
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- Öberg Sysojev, Anton, et al.
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Genome-wide investigation of persistence with methotrexate treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis
- 2024
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Ingår i: Rheumatology. - : Oxford University Press. - 1462-0324 .- 1462-0332. ; 63:5, s. 1221-1229
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives: To investigate the influence of genetic factors on persistence to treatment of early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with methotrexate (MTX) monotherapy.Methods: We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in a sample of 3902 Swedish early RA patients initiating MTX in DMARD-monotherapy as their first ever DMARD. The outcome, short- and long-term persistence to this treatment, was defined as remaining on MTX at one and at three years, respectively, with no additional DMARDs added. As genetic predictors, we investigated individual SNPs, and a polygenic risk score (PRS) based on SNPs associated with RA risk. The SNP-based heritability of persistence was estimated overall and by RA serostatus.Results: No individual SNP reached genome-wide significance (p < 5e-8), neither for persistence at one nor at three years. The RA PRS was not significantly associated with persistence at one (RR = 0.98 (0.96-1.01)) nor three years (RR = 0.96 (0.93-1.00)). The heritability for persistence was estimated to be 0.45 (0.15-0.75) at one year and 0.14 (0-0.40) at three years. Results in seropositive RA were comparable to those in the analysis of RA overall, while heritability estimates and PRS RRs were attenuated towards the null in seronegative RA.Conclusions: Despite being the largest GWAS on an MTX treatment outcome to date, no genome-wide significant associations were detected. The modest heritability observed, coupled with the broad spread of suggestively associated loci, indicate that genetic influence is of polygenic nature. Nevertheless, persistence to MTX monotherapy was lower in patients with a greater genetic disposition, per the PRS, towards RA.
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