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Factors associated with aortic valve stenosis in Japanese patients with end-stage kidney disease

Abstract

Background

Aortic valve stenosis (AS) has a high prevalence and poor prognosis in patients who receive maintenance dialysis. However, few large-scale observational studies in Japan have investigated patients with AS who underwent dialysis. In this study, we investigated the prevalence and factors associated with AS in Japanese patients who underwent dialysis.

Methods

In this cross-sectional analysis, we enrolled patients who underwent dialysis and transthoracic echocardiography between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018. Patients with a maximum aortic jet velocity (Vmax) ≥ 2.0 m/s, pressure gradient (PG) between the left ventricle and ascending aorta (mean PG) ≥ 20 mmHg, or aortic valve area (AVA) ≤ 1.0 cm2 were categorized into the AS group (G1). Patients with Vmax ≥ 3.0 m/s, mean PG ≥ 20 mmHg, or AVA ≤ 1.0 cm2 were categorized into the moderate and severe AS groups (G2). We performed multivariate logistic regression analysis and compared G1 and G2 with the non-AS group to determine the risk factors for AS. We also investigated the risk factors for aortic valve calcification, which is a pre-stage for AS.

Results

Of the 2,786 patients investigated, 555 (20.0%) and 193 (6.9%) were categorized into G1 and G2, respectively. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that age, long-term dialysis, and elevated serum phosphorus levels were associated with AS in both the groups (p < 0.05). These factors were converted into ordinal categories, and a multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed. Patients with serum phosphorus levels measuring 5.0–5.9 mg/dL and > 6.0 mg/dL showed a higher risk of AS than those with serum phosphorus levels measuring < 4.0 mg/dL (odds ratio 2.24, p = 0.01 and odds ratio 2.66, p = 0.005, respectively). Aortic valve calcification was associated with age, long-term dialysis, diabetes mellitus, administration of vitamin D receptor activators, elevated serum calcium levels, and anemia (p < 0.05 for all).

Conclusions

Patients on dialysis showed a high prevalence of AS, which was associated with age, long-term dialysis, and elevated serum phosphorus levels.

Trial registration

UMIN000026756, registered on March 29, 2017.

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Background

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) [1,2,3,4,5]. The prevalence of CVD, particularly aortic valve stenosis (AS), ranges from 13 to 25% in patients on dialysis, [6, 7] which is higher than the prevalence (2.3%–4.3%) in the general elderly population [8, 9]. Previous clinical studies have reported that AS in patients on dialysis is characterized by a rapid decrease in aortic valve area (AVA) and rapid progression of valve calcification [10, 11]. Additionally, survival rates are lower in AS patients with CKD than in those without [12, 13].

Age-induced changes in the aortic valve, leading to sclerosis and calcification, [14] have replaced rheumatic fever as the primary cause of AS [15]. Morphological changes secondary to mechanical stress, endothelial injury, inflammation, and valve hemorrhage [16] can lead to aortic valve leaflet thickening, fibrosis, and calcification, eventually causing stenosis. However, the mechanisms underlying these changes remain unclear. Regarding the risk factors, a few studies have reported that age, male sex, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and smoking are associated with valve degeneration [9, 17, 18]. Other studies have reported that hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, and renal insufficiency are not associated with AS progression [19,20,21].

The prevalence of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and mineral and bone disorders (MBD) is higher in patients on dialysis compared to the general population. These conditions are associated with arteriosclerosis and CVD [22,23,24,25,26,27,28]. The factors associated with AS in patients on dialysis have not been investigated by a large-scale cohort study. Therefore, we conducted a multicenter prospective cohort study to investigate the factors associated with AS, the prevalence, and prognosis of patients with AS who have had dialysis. In this study, only the results of the cross-sectional analysis of the included patients at baseline in the multicenter prospective cohort study were reported.

Materials and methods

Study population

The study included patients aged ≥ 20 years who underwent outpatient maintenance dialysis for > 1 year across 58 hospitals in the Tokai region of Japan. The baseline was selected as the time of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) performed between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018. Patients with a history of aortic valve surgery and those who refused to participate in the study were excluded. 2,916 patients were enrolled and the following data was recorded: Patients’ background, history, comorbidities, medications, laboratory data, chest radiography findings, electrocardiogram tracings, and TTE images. Out of the 2,916 patients enrolled in the study, 130 patients who met the following criteria were excluded: duration of dialysis < 1 year, unknown initiation of dialysis, history of aortic valve surgery, or TTE performed outside the observation period.

Definition of aortic stenosis and aortic valve calcification

All the patients underwent a TTE to measure the parameters associated with AS and to evaluate for aortic valve calcification. The maximum aortic jet velocity (Vmax), pressure gradient (PG) between the left ventricle and ascending aorta (mean PG), and the AVA was recorded to evaluate for AS. Aortic stenosis was defined based on the 2014 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease. It was defined as (a) Vmax ≥ 2.0 m/s, (b) mean PG ≥ 20 mmHg, or (c) AVA ≤ 1.0 cm2. Patients who met any of the criteria were categorized into the AS group (G1); the rest were categorized into the non-AS group. Among the patients in G1, the moderate and severe AS groups were categorized as G2, with the Vmax criterion changed from ≥ 2.0 m/s to ≥ 3.0 m/s without any change in the mean PG and AVA criteria. Fig. 1 shows the patient flowchart.

Fig. 1
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A flow diagram of the present study. Abbreviations: Vmax, Velocity max; PG, pressure gradient; AVA, aortic valve area

Statistical analysis

Baseline data is presented as means (standard deviation), medians (interquartile range), or percentages for categorical measures. Fisher's exact test for nominal variables and the Mann–Whitney U test for continuous variables was used to compare the baseline data between G1 and the non-AS group and between G2 and the non-AS group. Factors associated with AS on univariate analysis were subjected to multivariate logistic regression analysis along with the factors associated with MBD. The following 14 variables were subjected to multivariate logistic regression analysis: sex, age, duration of dialysis, nephrosclerosis as the primary contributor to CKD, diabetes mellitus as a comorbidity, calcimimetic use, vitamin D receptor activator (VDRA) administration, phosphate binder use, serum albumin level, serum corrected calcium level, serum phosphorus level, serum intact parathyroid hormone level, serum C-reactive protein level, and serum hemoglobin level. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed with these 14 variables, and age, dialysis duration, and serum phosphorus levels that showed significant differences were converted into ordinal categories. Patients were categorized on the basis of age into the following groups: < 60, 60–69, 70–79, and ≥ 80 years. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed on these age ordinal categories and 13 other factors. Similarly, Patients were categorized into the following groups on the basis of the duration of dialysis and serum phosphorus levels: < 5, 5–9, 10–14, and ≥ 5 years and < 4.0, 4.0–4.9, 5.0–5.9, and ≥ 6.0 mg/dL, respectively.

Patients were further categorized into those with and without aortic valve calcification (a pre-stage of AS), and a multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed. The Mann–Whitney U test was used to compare the Vmax, mean PG, and AVA between patients with and without aortic valve calcification.

All statistical analyses were performed using the R software (The R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria). All values were two-sided, and p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

This study was performed in accordance with the Ethics of Clinical Research (The Helsinki Declaration) and was approved by the Fujita Health University Center for Clinical Trial and Research Support (approval numbers: HM16–373). All patients included in this study provided informed consent after the purpose of the study was explained to them. This study was registered in the Clinical Trial Registry (UMIN 000,026,756) on April 1, 2017.

Results

Baseline patient characteristics

In total, 2,786 patients were enrolled in the study; 555 patients (20.0%) were categorized into G1 and 2,231 (80.0%) into the non-AS group. Out of the 555 patients in G1, 514 (92.6%) showed Vmax ≥ 2.0 m/s, 107 (19.3%) showed mean PG ≥ 20 mmHg, and 102 (18.6%) showed AVA ≤ 1.0 cm2. Based on these findings, the moderate and severe AS groups were categorized as G2, with the Vmax criterion changed from ≥ 2.0 m/s to ≥ 3.0 m/s without any change in the mean PG and AVA criteria. Among patients in G1, 193 (6.9%) were categorized as G2. Out of the 193 patients, 98 (50.8%) showed Vmax ≥ 3.0 m/s, 107 (55.4%) showed mean PG ≥ 20 mmHg, and 102 (52.8%) showed AVA ≤ 1.0 cm2. Table 1 shows a comparison of the baseline characteristics between G1 and the non-AS group and between G2 and the non-AS group. The median ages of G1, G2, and the non-AS groups were 75, 77, and 68 years, respectively. The median hemodialysis durations in G1, G2, and the non-AS groups were 8.0, 7.4, and 6.2 years, respectively. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in G1, G2, and the non-AS groups were 36.0%, 39.9%, and 46.0%, respectively. No significant differences were observed in the mean serum phosphorus and corrected serum calcium levels in the groups. According to the TTE results, the percentages of aortic valve calcification in G1 and G2 were 80.7% and 83.8%, respectively, which were higher than the percentage in the non-AS group (53.3%).

Table 1 Comparison of baseline characteristics between G1 and the non-AS group and between G2 and the non-AS group

Multivariate logistic regression analysis for aortic stenosis

We performed a multivariate logistic regression analysis to compare G1 and G2 with the non-AS group (Table 2). Comparison between G1 and the non-AS group showed that age, long-term dialysis, and elevated serum phosphorus levels were associated with AS (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.93, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.71–2.19, p < 0.001; aOR 1.41, 95% CI 1.21–1.64, p < 0.001; aOR 1.16, 95% CI 1.06–1.28, p = 0.001, respectively). Comparison between G2 and the non-AS group showed similar tendencies in these three variables (aOR 2.51, 95% CI 2.02–3.12, p < 0.001; aOR 1.35, 95% CI 1.06–1.71, p = 0.01; aOR 1.24, 95% CI 1.07–1.44, p = 0.005, respectively). In contrast, nephrosclerosis as a contributor to CKD was not associated with AS. Diabetes mellitus as a comorbidity was associated with AS when G1 was compared to the non-AS group (aOR 0.74, 95% CI 0.58–0.95, p = 0.02); however, no significant difference was observed between G2 and the non-AS group (aOR 0.95, 95% CI 0.64–1.40, p = 0.79).

Table 2 Adjusted odds ratio for aortic valve stenosis by multivariate logistic regression analysis

Multivariate logistic regression analysis for aortic stenosis using ordinal categories.

The aOR for AS was determined on the basis of age, duration of dialysis, and serum phosphorus levels (Figs. 2A, 2B, and 2C). The aOR in the AS group tended to increase with an increase in the duration of dialysis. In G2, the aOR of > 15 years of dialysis was 1.86-fold greater (95% CI 1.06–3.24, p = 0.03) than that of < 5 years of dialysis. The aOR increased with an increase in serum phosphorus levels. The aORs of the serum phosphorus levels in the 5.0–5.9 and > 6.0 mg/dL groups were 1.52 and 1.83-fold higher and 2.24 and 2.66-fold higher in G1 and G2, respectively, compared to serum phosphorus levels < 4.0 mg/dL.

Fig. 2
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Adjusted odds ratio (aOR) for AS between the categories of age, duration of dialysis, and serum phosphorus level. The graph on the left was a comparison between G1 and the non-AS group, and the graph on the right was a comparison between G2 and the non-AS group. The multivariate analysis model included the sex, age, duration of dialysis, nephrosclerosis as the primary contributor to CKD, diabetes mellitus as a comorbidity, calcimimetic use, vitamin D receptor activators administration, phosphate binder use, serum albumin level, serum corrected calcium level, serum phosphorus level, serum intact parathyroid hormone level, serum C-reactive protein level, and serum hemoglobin level as variables. A: aOR for AS between the categories of age. B: aOR for AS between the categories of duration of dialysis. C: aOR for AS between the categories of serum phosphorus levels

Characteristics of patients with aortic valve calcification

Table 3 shows the results of the multivariate logistic regression analysis for aortic valve calcification. Aortic valve calcification was associated with age, long-term dialysis, diabetes mellitus, VDRA administration, elevated serum calcium levels, and anemia but not with elevated serum phosphorus levels. The mean PG, AVA, and Vmax values were compared in patients with and without aortic valve calcification (Table 4). Significantly higher Vmax and mean PG values and significantly lower AVA values were observed in patients with aortic valve calcification.

Table 3 Adjusted odds ratio for aortic valve calcification by multivariate logistic regression analysis
Table 4 Comparison of parameters with and without aortic valve calcification

Discussion

This study showed that the prevalence of AS in patients on dialysis was as high as 20.0%, which is similar to the findings of previous reports [6, 7]. A close association between AS and aortic valve calcification was observed. Age was strongly associated with AS in patients on dialysis, as well as in the general population. Notably, hyperphosphatemia and long-term dialysis were associated with AS.

Hyperphosphatemia is seen in many patients on dialysis. Based on the United States Renal Data System statistics published in 2018, 38.1% of patients on dialysis in the USA had serum phosphorus levels ≥ 5.5 mg/dL. Based on the data published by the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy in 2019, 53.9% of patients on dialysis in Japan had serum phosphorus levels ≥ 5.0 mg/dL. Hyperphosphatemia promotes calcification of vascular smooth muscle cells and promotes CVD, which is associated with a high mortality in patients with CKD [29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37]. Phosphorus is considered a major contributor to calcification, in both blood vessels and the aortic valve [38]. Husseini et al. reported that SLC20A1/Pit1, a phosphorus transporter associated with calcification in blood vessels, is also expressed in calcified aortic valves [39]. In two different observational studies that included approximately 100 patients who underwent dialysis, Tarrass et al. and Petrović et al. reported that phosphorus was associated with aortic valve calcification on the basis of univariate and multivariate analyses results, respectively [40, 41]. However, the association between hyperphosphatemia and AS has not been studied. In this study, an elevated serum phosphorus level was not associated with aortic valve calcification but was associated with AS. In contrast, an elevated serum calcium level was not associated with AS but was associated with aortic valve calcification. Based on these results, MBD, including hyperphosphatemia and hypercalcemia, may be associated with aortic valve calcification and AS. Interestingly, serum phosphorus levels ≥ 5.0 mg/dL (lower than the upper limit of 6.0 mg/dL established by Japanese guidelines) were associated with AS. The findings may be useful to establish target values for serum phosphorus levels.

This study showed that long-term dialysis was associated with both AS and aortic valve calcification on multivariate analysis, which included age and MBD-related factors as variables. Long-term dialysis involves various factors, such as fluid retention, chronic inflammation, and uremic toxins, that affect the cardiovascular system; therefore, it may be difficult to identify the factors that contribute to AS [42,43,44,45,46,47].

Limitations

The following are the limitations of this study. (i) Patients with a history of aortic valve surgery were excluded; therefore, a serious risk factor associated with AS may have been disregarded. (ii) This study was a cross-sectional analysis; therefore, the results cannot demonstrate causality. (iii) The accuracy of TTE was unlikely to be consistent across patients in this multicenter study. Aortic valve calcification was based on the subjective interpretation of echocardiography findings by technicians at each facility. (iv) Data were not collected on whether the patients had bicuspid aortic valves, which is one of the major causes of aortic stenosis. This may have affected the results of this study. (v) The percentages of missing values for Vmax, mean PG, and AVA were 12.2%, 25.4%, and 20.9%, respectively. Although one or more of these factors were measured in all patients, missing data may potentially lead to misclassification of the AS groups. (vi) The multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed by complete cases analysis. This may have affected the results.

Conclusion

Patients who received maintenance dialysis showed a high prevalence of AS, which was associated with age, hyperphosphatemia, and duration of dialysis.

Availability of data and materials

The dataset analyzed in the present study is presented in the additional file and available (title of data: dataset 1). The dataset included the patient profiles, comorbidities, medications, laboratory data, ECG, chest X-ray, and TTE.

Abbreviations

CKD:

Chronic kidney disease

CVD:

Cardiovascular disease

AS:

Aortic valve stenosis

AVA:

Aortic valve area

MBD:

Mineral and Bone Disorder

TTE:

Transthoracic echocardiography

PG:

Pressure gradient

Vmax:

Maximum aortic jet velocity

MOR:

Multivariate-adjusted odds ratio

CI:

Confidence interval

VDRA:

Vitamin D receptor activators

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the support provided by Futoshi Suzuki (Fujita Health University), Noriko Suzuki (Fujita Health University), and the members of this cohort study. The Aichi Kidney Foundation and Japanese Association of Dialysis Physicians funded this study.

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DI and YS participated in the design of the study and interpretation of data. YS surveyed and collected information about prognosis. YS performed statistical analyses. YS drafted the manuscript and DI revised it critically for important intellectual content. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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D. Inaguma received lecture fees from Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. Y. Yuzawa received research support grants from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd., and Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Sasakawa, Y., Okamoto, N., Fujii, M. et al. Factors associated with aortic valve stenosis in Japanese patients with end-stage kidney disease. BMC Nephrol 23, 129 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-022-02758-y

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