{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Fiedler L"],"funding":["Russian Science Foundation"],"pagination":["2889"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9687975"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["10(11)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Introduction</h4>COVID-19 survivors reveal an increased long-term risk for cardiovascular disease. Biomarkers like troponins and sST-2 improve stratification of cardiovascular risk. Nevertheless, their prognostic value for identifying long-term cardiovascular risk after having survived COVID-19 has yet to be evaluated.<h4>Methods</h4>In this single-center study, admission serum biomarkers of sST-2 and hs-TnI in a single cohort of 251 hospitalized COVID-19 survivors were evaluated. Concentrations were correlated with major cardiovascular events (MACE) defined as cardiovascular death and/or need for cardiovascular hospitalization during follow-up after hospital discharge [FU: 415 days (403; 422)].<h4>Results</h4>MACE was a frequent finding during FU with an incidence of 8.4% (cardiovascular death: 2.8% and/or need for cardiovascular hospitalization: 7.2%). Both biomarkers were reliable indicators of MACE (hs-TnI: sensitivity = 66.7%&specificity = 65.7%; sST-2: sensitivity = 33.3%&specificity = 97.4%). This was confirmed in a multivariate proportional-hazards analysis: besides age (HR = 1.047, 95% CI = 1.012-1.084, <i>p</i> = 0.009), hs-TnI (HR = 4.940, 95% CI = 1.904-12.816, <i>p</i> = 0.001) and sST-2 (HR = 10.901, 95% CI =4.509-29.271, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.001) were strong predictors of MACE. The predictive value of the model was further improved by combining both biomarkers with the factor age (concordance index hs-TnI + sST2 + age = 0.812).<h4>Conclusion</h4>During long-term FU, hospitalized COVID-19 survivors, hs-TnI and sST-2 at admission, were strong predictors of MACE, indicating both proteins to be involved in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19."],"journal":["Biomedicines"],"pubmed_title":["Investigation of hs-TnI and sST-2 as Potential Predictors of Long-Term Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Survived Hospitalization for COVID-19 Pneumonia."],"pmcid":["PMC9687975"],"funding_grant_id":["22-25-00019"],"pubmed_authors":["Jirak P","Kopp K","Lasinova G","Pistulli R","Dieplinger AM","Fiedler L","Hauptmann L","Hoppe UC","Tataurov A","Gareeva D","Lakman I","Pavlov V","Gumerov R","Zagidullin N","Davtyan P","Motloch LJ","Lichtenauer M"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Investigation of hs-TnI and sST-2 as Potential Predictors of Long-Term Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Survived Hospitalization for COVID-19 Pneumonia.","description":"<h4>Introduction</h4>COVID-19 survivors reveal an increased long-term risk for cardiovascular disease. Biomarkers like troponins and sST-2 improve stratification of cardiovascular risk. Nevertheless, their prognostic value for identifying long-term cardiovascular risk after having survived COVID-19 has yet to be evaluated.<h4>Methods</h4>In this single-center study, admission serum biomarkers of sST-2 and hs-TnI in a single cohort of 251 hospitalized COVID-19 survivors were evaluated. Concentrations were correlated with major cardiovascular events (MACE) defined as cardiovascular death and/or need for cardiovascular hospitalization during follow-up after hospital discharge [FU: 415 days (403; 422)].<h4>Results</h4>MACE was a frequent finding during FU with an incidence of 8.4% (cardiovascular death: 2.8% and/or need for cardiovascular hospitalization: 7.2%). Both biomarkers were reliable indicators of MACE (hs-TnI: sensitivity = 66.7%&specificity = 65.7%; sST-2: sensitivity = 33.3%&specificity = 97.4%). This was confirmed in a multivariate proportional-hazards analysis: besides age (HR = 1.047, 95% CI = 1.012-1.084, <i>p</i> = 0.009), hs-TnI (HR = 4.940, 95% CI = 1.904-12.816, <i>p</i> = 0.001) and sST-2 (HR = 10.901, 95% CI =4.509-29.271, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.001) were strong predictors of MACE. The predictive value of the model was further improved by combining both biomarkers with the factor age (concordance index hs-TnI + sST2 + age = 0.812).<h4>Conclusion</h4>During long-term FU, hospitalized COVID-19 survivors, hs-TnI and sST-2 at admission, were strong predictors of MACE, indicating both proteins to be involved in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19.","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Nov","modification":"2025-04-19T16:10:39.152Z","creation":"2025-04-19T16:10:39.152Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9687975","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36359409"],"doi":["10.3390/biomedicines10112889"]}}