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J Am Coll Cardiol, 2002; 39:695-701
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CLINICAL STUDY: END-STAGE RENAL DESIGN

Cardiac calcification in adult hemodialysis patients

A link between end-stage renal disease and cardiovascular disease?

Paolo Raggi, MD*,1, Amy Boulay, MPH{dagger},1, Scott Chasan-Taber, PhD{ddagger},1, Naseem Amin, MD,1, Maureen Dillon, MA{dagger},1, Steven K. Burke, MD{dagger},1 and Glenn M. Chertow, MD, MPH#,*,1

* Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
{dagger} GelTex Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
{ddagger} Boston Biostatistics, Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Genzyme, Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
# Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

Manuscript received June 13, 2001; revised manuscript received October 16, 2001, accepted November 13, 2001.

* Reprint requests and correspondence: Glenn M. Chertow, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine Research UCSF Laurel Heights, 3333 California Street, Suite 430, San Francisco, California 94118-1211, USA.
chertowg{at}medicine.ucsf.edu

OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine clinical and laboratory correlates of calcification of the coronary arteries (CAs), aorta and mitral and aortic valves in adult subjects with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) receiving hemodialysis.

BACKGROUND: Vascular calcification is known to be a risk factor for ischemic heart disease in non-uremic individuals. Patients with ESRD experience accelerated vascular calcification, due at least in part to dysregulation of mineral metabolism. Clinical correlates of the extent of calcification in ESRD have not been identified. Moreover, the clinical relevance of calcification as measured by electron-beam tomography (EBT) has not been determined in the ESRD population.

METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 205 maintenance hemodialysis patients who received baseline EBT for evaluation of vascular and valvular calcification. We compared subjects with and without clinical evidence of atherosclerotic vascular disease and determined correlates of the extent of vascular and valvular calcification using multivariable linear regression and proportional odds logistic regression analyses.

RESULTS: The median coronary artery calcium score was 595 (interquartile range, 76 to 1,600), values consistent with a high risk of obstructive coronary artery disease in the general population. The CA calcium scores were directly related to the prevalence of myocardial infarction (p < 0.0001) and angina (p < 0.0001), and the aortic calcium scores were directly related to the prevalence of claudication (p = 0.001) and aortic aneurysm (p = 0.02). The extent of coronary calcification was more pronounced with older age, male gender, white race, diabetes, longer dialysis vintage and higher serum concentrations of calcium and phosphorus. Total cholesterol (and high-density lipoprotein and low-density lipoprotein subfractions), triglycerides, hemoglobin and albumin were not significantly related to the extent of CA calcification. Only dialysis vintage was significantly associated with the prevalence of valvular calcification.

CONCLUSIONS: Coronary artery calcification is common, severe and significantly associated with ischemic cardiovascular disease in adult ESRD patients. The dysregulation of mineral metabolism in ESRD may influence vascular calcification risk.

Abbreviations and Acronyms
  ASVD
  atherosclerotic vascular disease
  CA
  coronary artery
  CAD
  coronary artery disease
  EBT
  electron-beam tomography
  ESRD
  end-stage renal disease
  HDL
  high-density lipoprotein
  LDL
  low-density lipoprotein
  MI
  myocardial infarction
  PTH
  parathyroid hormone




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