The Prognostic Value of Plasma Soluble ST2 in Hospitalized Chinese Patients with Heart Failure

Rongcheng Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, Jian Zhang, Tao An, Yan Huang, Xiao Guo, James L Januzzi, Thomas P Cappola, Shijie Yin, Yunhong Wang, Qiong Zhou, Changhong Zou, Shiming Ji and Rong Lv

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 10, 1-9

Abstract: Background: sST2 has been shown to be a risk predictor in heart failure (HF). Our aim was to explore the characteristics and prognostic value of soluble ST2 (sST2) in hospitalized Chinese patients with HF. Methods and Results: We consecutively enrolled 1528 hospitalized patients with HF. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and multivariable Cox proportional hazards analysis were used to assess the prognostic values of sST2. Adverse events were defined as all-cause death and cardiac transplantation. During a median follow-up of 19.1 months, 325 patients experienced adverse events. Compared with patients free of events, sST2 concentrations were significantly higher in patients with events (P 55.6 ng/mL) independently predicted events in comparison to the lowest quartile (≤25.2 ng/mL) when adjusted by multivariable model. In ROC analysis, the area under the curve for sST2 was not different from that for NT-proBNP in short and longer term. Over time, sST2 also improved discrimination and reclassification of risk beyond NT-proBNP. Conclusions: sST2 is a strong independent risk predictor in Chinese patients hospitalized with HF and can significantly provide additional prognostic value to NT-proBNP in risk prediction.

Date: 2014
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