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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Cardiovasc. Med.
Sec. Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2025.1511112
This article is part of the Research Topic Advancing Vascular Health: A Comprehensive Framework for Non-Traditional Risk Assessment View all articles
Novel Insights into the Association between Organ Damage and Inflammatory Response in Preoperative Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Provisionally accepted- 1 Shougang Hospital, Health Science Centre, Peking University, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
- 2 First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China
Background: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a life-threatening condition in the elderly population. The insidious nature of AAA onset makes early detection difficult. Currently, there are few studies on changes in laboratory parameters during AAA development. Methods: This study included 55 elderly patients with AAA who were admitted to the Department of Vascular Medicine, Shougang Hospital, Peking University 2021-2022. Propensity score matching (PSM) in a 1:1 ratio was performed to match the 55 patients and 1031 controls. In this population of AAA, correlation and regression analyses were used to explore the association between the level of inflammation and each laboratory parameter. Results: Compared to the control group, significant differences in inflammatory markers, transaminase and bilirubin levels, blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine (Cr) levels, and ankle-brachial index were found in the aneurysm group. After PSM, the differences between the two groups for each parameter remained statistically significant. Correlation and regression analyses showed a weak positive correlation between the inflammatory index and the BUN and Cr levels (correlation coefficient = 0.22). Conclusions: Our study demonstrates the presence of a highly inflammatory state and damage to various organs in patients with AAA. This hyperinflammatory state may be associated with kidney injury and is a cause of concern.
Keywords: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Inflammation, Blood Urea Nitrogen, Creatinine, kidney injury
Received: 14 Oct 2024; Accepted: 04 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wen, Su, Liu and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Hongyu Wang, Shougang Hospital, Health Science Centre, Peking University, Beijing, 100144, Beijing Municipality, China
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