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Pre-treatment peripheral biomarkers associated with treatment response in panic symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder and panic disorder: A 12-week follow-up study
•Higher pre-treatment leptin is associated with better treatment response on panic symptoms in MDD patients.•Higher pre-treatment IL-6 is associated with worse treatment response on panic symptoms in PD patients.•Individualized predictive biomarker research is neccessary for clinical practice. Perip...
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Published in: | Comprehensive psychiatry 2019-11, Vol.95, p.152140-152140, Article 152140 |
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Summary: | •Higher pre-treatment leptin is associated with better treatment response on panic symptoms in MDD patients.•Higher pre-treatment IL-6 is associated with worse treatment response on panic symptoms in PD patients.•Individualized predictive biomarker research is neccessary for clinical practice.
Peripheral biomarkers have been studied to predict treatment response of panic symptoms. We hypothesized that depressive disorder (MDD) vs. panic disorder (PD) would exhibit different peripheral biomarkers, and their correlation with severity of panic attacks (PA) would also differ.
Forty-one MDD patients, 52 PD patients, and 59 healthy controls were followed for 12 weeks. We measured peripheral biomarkers along with the Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS) at each visit—pre-treatment, 2, 4, 8, and 12 weeks on a regular schedule. Peripheral biomarkers including serum cytokines, plasma and serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), leptin, adiponectin, and C-reactive protein (CRP) were quantified using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
Patients with MDD and PD demonstrated significantly higher levels of pre-treatment IL-6 compared to controls, but no differences were seen in plasma and serum BDNF, leptin, adiponectin, and CRP. Pre-treatment leptin showed a significant clinical correlation with reduction of panic symptoms in MDD patients at visit 5 (p=0.011), whereas pre-treatment IL-6 showed a negative correlation with panic symptom reduction in PD patients (p=0.022). An improvement in three panic-related items was observed to be positively correlated with pre-treatment leptin in MDD patients: distress during PA, anticipatory anxiety, and occupational interference.
Higher pre-treatment leptin was associated with better response to treatment regarding panic symptoms in patients with MDD, while higher IL-6 was associated with worse response regarding panic symptoms in PD patients. Different predictive peripheral biomarkers observed in MDD and PD suggest the need for establishing individualized predictive biomarkers, even in cases of similar symptoms observed in different disorders. |
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ISSN: | 0010-440X 1532-8384 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.comppsych.2019.152140 |