title: Reciprocal association of plasma adiponectin and serum C-reactive protein concentration in haemodialysis patients with end-stage kidney disease--a follow-up study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Malnutrition and inflammation are involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and increased risk of cardiovascular diseases in end-stage renal disease. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between concentrations of plasma adiponectin, serum C-reactive protein (CRP), carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and duration of haemodialysis (HD) treatment in prevalent HD patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Plasma adiponectin and serum CRP concentrations were estimated in 80 HD patients and 22 healthy controls. Carotid IMT was measured by ultrasound technique. HD patients were followed up for 23 +/- 16 months. During this period, 24 of them died.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In HD patients, plasma adiponectin concentration was over 3 times higher than in controls (29.0 +/- 2.1 vs. 8.7 +/- 2.6 microg/ml; p < 0.001). HD patients with serum CRP concentrations > or = 5 mg/l were characterized by a lower plasma adiponectin concentration than HD patients with the CRP < 5 mg/l (23.9 +/- 3.5 vs. 33.0 +/- 3.1 microg/ml; p = 0.03). Plasma adiponectin and serum CRP concentrations were inversely related in HD (tau = -0.181; p = 0.02). No relationship between adiponectinaemia and IMT was observed. Survival (Kaplan-Meier analysis) within the lowest plasma adiponectin tertile tended (p = 0.06) to be the worse.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  (1) Inflammatory processes are associated with an inadequate low plasma adiponetin concentration in HD patients, and (2) a lower plasma adiponectin concentration seems to be a new predictor of poor outcome in HD patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Witold
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ignacy
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chudek
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Adamczak
authors.forename: Tohru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Funahashi
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuzawa
authors.forename: Franciszek
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kokot
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wiecek
mesh_terms: D052242:Adiponectin / Q000097:blood*; D000328:Adult; D002097:C-Reactive Protein / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000097:blood* / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012044:Regression Analysis; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D017539:Tunica Intima / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D052242:Adiponectin; D002097:C-Reactive Protein