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The relationship of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate to inflammatory cytokines and survival in patients with chronic heart failure treated with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors

Rakesh Sharma, BSc, MRCP^*, Mathias Rauchhaus, MD^* , Piotr P. Ponikowski, MD, PhD^*, Susan Varney, BSc^*, Philip A. Poole-Wilson, MD, FACC^*, Douglas L. Mann, MD, FACC, Andrew J. S. Coats, DM, FACC^* and Stefan D. Anker, MD, PhD^*

^* Department of Cardiac Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Franz-Volhard-Klinik (Charité, Campus Berlin-Buch) at Max-Delbrück-Centrum for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Department of Internal Medicine III, Martin-Luther University, Halle, Germany

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 The correlation between ESR and soluble TNF receptor-1 plasma levels in 58 patients with CHF. CHF = chronic heart failure; ESR = erythrocyte sedimentation rate; sTNFR = soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor.

View larger version (22K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier survival plot for 159 patients with chronic heart failure. Patients were subgrouped according to erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR).