Does statin therapy reduce the risks of mortality and major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events in young adults with end-stage renal disease? Population-based cohort study

Ya Lien Cheng, Huang Yu Yang, Chao Yi Wu, Chung Ying Tsai, Chao Yu Chen, Ching Chung Hsiao, Hsiang Hao Hsu, Ya Chung Tian, Chieh Li Yen*

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Abstract

Among hemodialysis patients aged more than 40 years old, previous large-scale studies showed statin treatment had no effect on reducing cardiovascular adverse events. However, youngadult-onset end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients have different physicosocial factors compared to older ESRD patients. The benefit of statins in such a specific group has not been well evaluated. Through the use of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), young adult patients aged 20–40 with incident ESRD requiring permanent dialysis between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2015 were identified. The enrollees were further divided into two groups depending on whether they received statin therapy for more than 90 days (statin group) or never received any statin (nonstatin group) in the first year after initiation of dialysis. Propensity score weighting (PSW) was used to balance the baseline characteristics between the two groups. After PSW, the statin group (n = 771) exhibited a higher rate of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) (2.65% vs. 1.44%, hazard ratio (HR): 1.87, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.43–2.45), and acute myocardial infarction (1.51% vs. 0.30%, HR: 5.34, 95% CI: 3.40–8.39) compared to the nonstatin group (n = 1709). The risk of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular (CV) death. and stroke did not significantly differ between the two groups. Similar to older patients, this study demonstrated that statin therapy cannot offer any protective effects in reducing CV outcomes among young adult ESRD patients undergoing dialysis.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2097
JournalJournal of Clinical Medicine
Volume10
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 05 2021

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Keywords

  • Cardiovascular
  • Dialysis
  • ESRD
  • Statin
  • Young adult

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