Biomarker-Guided Versus Guideline-Based Treatment of Patients With Heart Failure: Results From BIOSTAT-CHF

Wouter Ouwerkerk; Aeilko H. Zwinderman; Leong L. Ng; Biniyam Demissei; Hans L. Hillege; Faiez Zannad; Dirk J. van Veldhuisen; Nilesh J. Samani; Piotr Ponikowski; Marco Metra; Jozine M. ter Maaten; Chim Lang; Pim van der Harst; Gerasimos S. Filippatos; Kenneth Dickstein; John G. F. Cleland; Stefan D. Anker; Adriaan A. Voors

doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2017.11.041

Biomarker-Guided Versus Guideline-Based Treatment of Patients With Heart Failure: Results From BIOSTAT-CHF

Wouter Ouwerkerk (Lead / Corresponding author)
, Aeilko H. Zwinderman
, Leong L. Ng
, Biniyam Demissei
, Hans L. Hillege
, Faiez Zannad
, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen
, Nilesh J. Samani
, Piotr Ponikowski
, Marco Metra
, Jozine M. ter Maaten
, Chim Lang
, Pim van der Harst
, Gerasimos S. Filippatos
, Kenneth Dickstein
, John G. F. Cleland
, Stefan D. Anker
, Adriaan A. Voors

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Abstract

Background: Heart failure guidelines recommend up-titration of ACE-inhibitors/ARBs, beta-blockers and MRA’s to doses used in randomized clinical trials, but these recommended doses are often not reached. Up-titration might however not be necessary in all patients. We aimed to establish the role of blood biomarkers to determine which patients should or should not be up-titrated.

Methods: Clinical outcomes of 2516 patients with worsening heart failure from BIOSTAT-CHF were compared between 3 theoretical treatment scenarios: A) all patients are up-titrated to >50% of recommended doses; B) patients are up-titrated according to a biomarker-based treatment-selection model; C) no patient is up-titrated to >50% of recommended doses. We conducted multivariable Cox regression using 161 biomarkers and their interaction with treatment, weighted for treatment-indication bias to estimate the expected number of deaths and/or heart-failure hospitalizations at 24 months for all three scenarios.

Results: Estimated death/hospitalization rates in 1802 patients with available (bio)markers were 16%, 16%, and 26% respectively in ACE-inhibitor/ARB up-titration scenario A, B and C. Similar rates for beta-blocker and MRA up-titration scenarios A, B, and C were 23%, 19%, and 24%, and 12%, 11% and 24 %, respectively. If up-titration was successful in all patients, an estimated 9.8, 1.3 and 12.3 events per 100 treated patients could be prevented at 24 months by ACE-inhibitor/ARB, beta-blocker and MRA therapy. Similar numbers were 9.9, 4.7 and 13.1 if up-titration treatment decision was based on a biomarker-based treatment-selection model.
Conclusion: Up-titrating patients with heart failure based on biomarker values might have resulted in fewer deaths and/or hospitalizations compared to a hypothetical scenario in which all patients were successfully up-titrated.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	386-398
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Volume	71
Issue number	4
Early online date	22 Jan 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.11.041
Publication status	Published - 30 Jan 2018

Keywords

ACE inhibitor/ARB
beta-blocker
biomarkers
MRA
treatment decision

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Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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Ouwerkerk, W., Zwinderman, A. H., Ng, L. L., Demissei, B., Hillege, H. L., Zannad, F., van Veldhuisen, D. J., Samani, N. J., Ponikowski, P., Metra, M., ter Maaten, J. M., Lang, C., van der Harst, P., Filippatos, G. S., Dickstein, K., Cleland, J. G. F., Anker, S. D., & Voors, A. A. (2018). Biomarker-Guided Versus Guideline-Based Treatment of Patients With Heart Failure: Results From BIOSTAT-CHF. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 71(4), 386-398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.11.041

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Ouwerkerk, W, Zwinderman, AH, Ng, LL, Demissei, B, Hillege, HL, Zannad, F, van Veldhuisen, DJ, Samani, NJ, Ponikowski, P, Metra, M, ter Maaten, JM, Lang, C, van der Harst, P, Filippatos, GS, Dickstein, K, Cleland, JGF, Anker, SD & Voors, AA 2018, 'Biomarker-Guided Versus Guideline-Based Treatment of Patients With Heart Failure: Results From BIOSTAT-CHF', Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 386-398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.11.041

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