Association of troponin T and altered lipid profile in patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction

Objective: To determine whether elevated levels of troponin T are associated with altered lipid profile. Methods: Data were collected from 205 patients each of whom presented elevated troponin T levels. Results: 195 patients presented with suspected myocardial infarction, 10 patients did not. Of whi...

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Published in:Archives of physiology and biochemistry 2010-02, Vol.116 (1), p.21-27
Main Authors: Nayak, Shivananda B., Pinto Pereira, Lexley M, Boodoo, Shantal, KimberlyAli, Annalise, Baptiste, Cherishe, Maraj, Sushain, Persad, Neil, Khan, Nadia, Surendran, Subina, Legall, George
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Language:English
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Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Biological and medical sciences
Biomarkers - blood
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
high density lipoprotein
Humans
lipid profile
Lipids - blood
low density lipoprotein
Male
Middle Aged
myocardial infarction
Myocardial Infarction - blood
Myocardial Infarction - diagnosis
Myocardial Infarction - epidemiology
Prevalence
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Statistics as Topic
total cholesterol
Trinidad and Tobago - epidemiology
Troponin T
Troponin T - blood
Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems
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Summary:Objective: To determine whether elevated levels of troponin T are associated with altered lipid profile. Methods: Data were collected from 205 patients each of whom presented elevated troponin T levels. Results: 195 patients presented with suspected myocardial infarction, 10 patients did not. Of which 68 had medium, 107 high and 20 presented with very high troponin T levels. The proportions were significantly different (p = 0.000215). Regression analysis showed that troponin T level was a useful quadratic predictor of total cholesterol (p = 0.000), triglycerides (p = 0.003), and low density cholesterol (p = 0.000); and a useful linear predictor of TC/HC ratio (p = 0.001). Conclusions: The occurrence of myocardial infarction is associated with elevated troponin T levels; troponin T is positively correlated with total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL and TC/HC ratio and negatively correlated with HDL. TC/HC ratio was not found to be a useful predictor of the likelihood of MI.
ISSN:1381-3455
1744-4160
DOI:10.3109/13813450903397638