Circulating levels of sclerostin are associated with cardiovascular mortality
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Novo-Rodríguez, Cristina; García Fontana, Beatriz; Luna Del Castillo, Juan De Dios; Andujar Vera, Francisco; Ávila Rubio, Verónica; García Fontana, Cristina; Morales Santana, Sonia; Rozas Moreno, Pedro; Muñoz Torres, Manuel EduardoEditorial
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Date
2018-06-21Referencia bibliográfica
Novo-RodrõÂguez C, GarcõÂa-Fontana B, Luna-Del Castillo JDD, AnduÂjar-Vera F,AÂ vila-Rubio V, GarcõÂa-Fontana C, et al. (2018) Circulating levels of sclerostin are associated with cardiovascular mortality. PLoS ONE 13(6): e0199504. [https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199504]
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The authors declare that this work was support in part by Consejería de Salud y Bienestar Social (Junta de Andalucía) Grants (PI0207-2016 to Dr. Beatriz García-Fontana), and Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria (Instituto de Salud Carlos III) Grants (PI12/02141, PI15/01207 to Dr. Manuel Muñoz-Torres), with co-financing from FEDER. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript and there was no additional external funding received for this study.Résumé
Cardiovascular diseases are a health problem throughout the world, especially in people
with diabetes. The identification of cardiovascular disease biomarkers can improve risk
stratification. Sclerostin is a modulator of the Wnt/β-catenin signalling pathway in different
tissues, and it has recently been linked to vascular biology. The current study aimed to evaluate
the relationship between circulating sclerostin levels and cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular
mortality in individuals with and without type 2 diabetes. We followed up a
cohort of 130 participants (mean age 56.8 years; 48.5% females; 75 with type 2 diabetes;
46 with prevalent cardiovascular disease) in which serum sclerostin levels were measured
at the baseline. Time to death (both of cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular causes) was
assessed to establish the relationship between sclerostin and mortality. We found that
serum sclerostin concentrations were significantly higher in patients with prevalent cardiovascular
disease (p<0.001), and independently associated with cardiovascular mortality
(p = 0.008), showing sclerostin to be a stronger predictor of mortality than other classical
risk factors (area under the curve = 0.849 vs 0.823). The survival analysis showed that an
increase of 10 pmol/L in the serum sclerostin level resulted in a 31% increase in cardiovascular
mortality. However, no significant association was observed between sclerostin levels
and non-cardiovascular mortality (p = 0.346).
From these results, we conclude that high sclerostin levels are related to mortality due to
cardiovascular causes. The clinical implication of these findings is based on the possible
use of serum sclerostin as a new biomarker of cardiovascular mortality risk in order to establish
preventive strategies.