• Rafael de la Espriella, Antoni Bayés-Genís, Pau Llàcer, Patricia Palau, Gema Miñana, Enrique Santas, Mauricio Pellicer, Miguel González, José Luis Górriz, Vicent Bodi, Juan Sanchis, and Julio Núñez.
• Cardiology Department, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, Universitat de Valencia, INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain.
• Eur. J. Intern. Med. 2022 Jan 1; 95: 67-73.

BackgroundThis study aimed to evaluate whether glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) during admission modifies the predictive value of plasma amino-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA125) in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure (AHF).MethodsWe retrospectively evaluated 4595 patients consecutively discharged after admission for AHF at three tertiary-care hospitals from January 2008 through October 2019. To investigate the effect of kidney function on the association of NT-proBNP and CA125 with 1-year mortality (all-cause and cardiovascular mortality), we stratified patients according to four eGFR categories: <30 mL•min-1•1.73 m-2, 30-44 mL•min-1•1.73 m-2, 44-59 mL•min-1•1.73 m-2, and ≥60 mL•min-1•1.73 m-2. Biomarkers were assessed within the first 24 hours following admission.ResultsAt 1-year follow-up, 748 of 4595 (16.3%) patients died after discharge (of all deaths, 575 [12.5%] were cardiovascular). After multivariate adjustment, both NT-proBNP and CA125 remained independently associated with a higher risk of death when modeled as main effects (P<0.001). However, we found a differential prognostic effect of NT-proBNP across eGFR categories for both endpoints (all-cause mortality, P-value for interaction=0.002; CV mortality, P-value for interaction=0.001). Whereas NT-proBNP was positively and linearly associated with mortality in the subset of patients with normal or mildly reduced eGFR, its predictive ability progressively decreased at the lower extreme of eGFR (<45 mL•min-1•1.73 m-2). In contrast, the association between CA125 and survival remained consistent across all eGFR categories (all-cause mortality, P-value for interaction=0.559; CV mortality, P-value for interaction=0.855).ConclusionsIn patients with AHF and severely reduced eGFR, CA125 outperforms NT-proBNP in predicting 1-year mortality.Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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