Original research article
INTRODUCTIONThe identification of individuals at risk of future adverse cardiovascular outcomes is important after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Thus, the use of novel risk markers such as genetic polymorphisms to augment standard risk algorithms, including conventional clinical risk factors, has attracted increasing attention in recent years.Dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel is the current standard of treatment after PCI with drug-eluting stent to reduce the rate of recurrent ischemic events. 1,2 However, considerable interindividual variability exists in response to clopidogrel, and those with high on-clopidogrel platelet reactivity are at increased risk of cardiovascular events. 3,4 Several clinical, genetic, and cellular factors have been suggested as mechanisms for clopidogrel response variability. 5 One of the common causes of individual variations in drug response is genetic polymorphism associated with drug absorption and metabolism. [6][7][8] Clopidogrel is a prodrug that requires active enteric absorption and conversion into an active metabolite in the liver. 9 A key protein involved in clopidogrel absorption is the intestinal efflux transporter P-glycoprotein which is encoded by the ABCB1 gene. Purpose: We evaluated the incremental prognostic value of combining the CYP2C19 poor metabolizer (PM) and ABCB1 3435 TT for adverse clinical outcomes over conventional risk factors in a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) cohort.
Methods:We enrolled 2,188 patients. The primary end point was a composite of death from any cause, nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI), and stroke during 1-year follow-up. The population was stratified into the following four groups: CYP2C19 EM/IM+ABCB1 3435 CC/CT, CYP2C19 EM/IM+ABCB1 3435 TT, CYP2C19 PM+ABCB1 3435 CC/CT, and CYP2C19 PM+ABCB1 3435 TT.
Results:A total of 87 (3.97%) primary end-point events occurred (64 deaths, 8 non-fatal MIs and 15 strokes). Multivariate Cox analysis indicated that CYP2C19 PM+ABCB1 3435 TT status was a significant predictor of the primary end point (hazard ratio = 4.51, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.92-10.58). However, addition of combined genetic status to the clinical risk model did not improve the model discrimination (C-statistic = 0.786 (95% CI = 0.734-0.837) to 0.785 (95% CI = 0.733-0.838)) or risk reclassification (categorical net reclassification improvement (0.040, P = 0.32), integrated discrimination improvement (0.021, P = 0.026)).
Conclusions:In a real-world East Asian PCI population taking clopidogrel, although the concurrent presence of CYP2C19 PM and ABCB1 TT is a strong independent predictor of adverse outcomes, the combined status of two at-risk variants does not have an incremental prognostic value beyond that of the conventional clinical risk factors.
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