Insertion/deletion polymorphism of the angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene in patients with heart failure / Polimorfismo de inserção/deleção do gene da enzima de conversão da angiotensina I em portadores de insuficiência cardíaca

AUTOR(ES)

Marco Antonio Romeo Cuoco

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

RESUMO

Insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of the angiotensin I- converting enzyme gene was studied in a cohort of survivors of 333 patients with heart failure of different etiologies and in a control group of 807 volunteer blood donors. The age of the patients ranged from 13 to 68 (43,3 ± 10,5) years, 262 (78.7%) were men and 71 (21.3%) women. The age of the control group ranged from 18 to 60 (31,5 ± 9,3) years, 557 (69%) were men and 250 (31%) women. Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy was diagnosed in 125 (37.6%), ischemic cardiomyopathy in 63 (18.9%), Chagasdisease cardiomyopathy in 58 (17.4%), hypertensive cardiomyopathy in 41 (12.3%), alcoholic cardiomyopathy in 24 (7.2%), valvular cardiomyopathy in 11 (3.3%) and peripartum cadiomyopathy in 11 (3.3%). The genotypes associated with the I/D polymorphism were determined by polymerase chain reaction. The distribution of the genotypes was determined in the control and patient groups as well the possible associations of the I/D polymorphism with clinical variables and the evolution. The chi-square test, the t-Student test, the analysis of variance (ANOVA), the Kaplan-Meire method, the log-rank test and Cox regression were used in the statistical analysis. The DD genotype was less frequent in patients, assuming a recessive effect of the D allele (p=0,0034). The left ventricular en-systolic diameter by echocardiography was higher in patients with the DD genotype, .... And the DD genotype, assuming a recessive effect of the D allele (p=0,033). The time elapsed until the onset of symptoms was shorter in patients with hypertensive cardiomyopathy and the DD genotype, assuming a codominant (p=0,048) or recessive (p=0.024) effect of the D allele. Patients older than 50 years with the DD genotype showed increased mortality, assuming a codominant (p=0,007) or recessive (p=0,002) effect of the D allele. The independent variables associated with increased mortality in patients older than 50 years were: age (p<0,001), the DD genotype (p=0,003), diabetes mellitus (p=0,003) and Chagasdisease (p=0,005), assuming a recessive effect of the D allele. Assuming a codominant effect of the D allele, the independent variables associated with increased mortality in patients older than 50 years were: age (p<0,001), Chagasdisease (p=0,004), diabetes mellitus (p=0,005) and the Dd genotype (p=0,015). These results suggest that the DD genotype may be associated with higher morbidity and mortality in some groups of patients with heart failure.

ASSUNTO(S)

polymorphism genetic/genetics polimorfismo (genética)/genética miocardiopatia/genética cardiomyopathies/genetics peptidil dipeptidase a/genética peptidyl-dipeptidase a/genetics

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