Plasma corin levels provide minimal prognostic utility incremental to natriuretic peptides in chronic systolic heart failure.
BACKGROUND
Corin is a serine protease that cleaves pro-atrial and pro-B-type natriuretic peptides into biologically active hormones. The relationship between soluble plasma corin levels, plasma natriuretic peptide levels, myocardial structure and performance, and long-term clinical outcomes in the setting of chronic systolic heart failure has not been described.


RESULTS
In 126 patients with chronic systolic heart failure (left ventricular ejection fraction <or=35%, New York Heart Association functional Class I-IV), we measured plasma corin and natriuretic peptide levels and performed comprehensive echocardiography with assessment of cardiac structure and performance. Adverse clinical events (all-cause mortality, cardiac transplantation, or heart failure hospitalization) were prospectively tracked for a median of 38 months. Plasma corin levels modestly correlated with echocardiographic indices of cardiac structure, including left ventricular mass index (r = 0.30, P = .003) and interventricular septum width (r = 0.22, P = .013). However, plasma corin levels did not correlate with age, arterial pressures, estimated glomerular filtration rate, echocardiographic indices of systolic or diastolic function, or plasma natriuretic peptide levels. In Cox proportional hazards analysis, higher plasma corin levels did not predict reduced risk of adverse clinical events (hazard ratio 0.91; 95% confidence interval 0.67-1.24, P = .52), and did not provide incremental prognostic value to natriuretic peptide levels.


CONCLUSIONS
In our cohort of ambulatory patients with chronic systolic heart failure, soluble plasma corin levels did not provide prognostic utility incremental to that of natriuretic peptides.
Shrestha
Kevin
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Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.
Troughton
Richard W
RW
Borowski
Allen G
AG
Yandle
Timothy G
TG
Richards
A Mark
AM
Klein
Allen L
AL
Tang
W H Wilson
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000097:blood; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D054143:Heart Failure, Systolic / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020097:Natriuretic Peptide, Brain / Q000097:blood; D045265:Natriuretic Peptides / Q000097:blood*; D011379:Prognosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases / Q000097:blood*
D015415:Biomarkers; D045265:Natriuretic Peptides; D020097:Natriuretic Peptide, Brain; C119812:CORIN protein, human; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases