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Serum fatty acid binding protein 4 is positively associated with early stroke recurrence in nondiabetic ischemic stroke

First author:Li Bo

Corresponding author:Wang Shuo

adipocyte fatty acid–binding protein stroke recurr

essential_information

  • Person in charge:Li Bo
  • Data Sources: OTHERS
  • Number of papers:OTHERS20190786
  • Published time:2019-04-09

2019-04-09

Published articles

Journal:Aging

Publication type: Research Paper

IF(IF): 5.515

PMID: 30969942 Link To Pubmed Full text Download

Background And Purpose

Method

This study included the 206 acute ischemic stroke patients hospitalized in our institution. Stroke recurrence events were assessed at the 3-month follow-up. The median of FABP level was 22.6 (IQR, 17.9-31.6) ng/mL in patients with stroke recurrence (N=36), which was higher than in patients without stroke recurrence [16.9 (IQR, 11.8-21.4) ng/mL] (P<0.001).

Conclusion

The risk of stroke recurrence can be predicted by elevated FABP4 levels in serum of nondiabetic patients with first-ever ischemic stroke.

Main results

As a continuous variable, the unadjusted and adjusted risk of stroke recurrence would be increased by 12% (OR=1.12 [95% CI 1.06–1.17], P<0.001) and 8% (1.08 [1.02–1.14], P=0.006) for every 1 ng/ml increment of FABP4. The Area under the curve (AUC) of serum FABP4 and NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score for predicting stroke recurrence was 0.73 (95% CI: 0.64–0.82) and 0.72 (95% CI: 0.64–0.81), presenting no discriminating capacity (P=0.45). In the combining model, the AUC of NIHSS score was further improved to 0.77 by FABP4 (0.77; 95% CI: 0.69–0.85), which was significant (P=0.01).