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The impacts of thyroid function on the diagnostic accuracy of Cystatin C to detect acute kidney injury in ICU patients: a prospective, observational study

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Abstract

Introduction

Cystatin C (Cysc) could be affected by thyroid function both in vivo and in vitro and thereby may have limited ability to reflect renal function. We aimed to assess the association between Cysc and thyroid hormones as well as the effect of thyroid function on the diagnostic accuracy of Cysc to detect acute kidney injury (AKI).

Methods

A total of 446 consecutive intensive care unit (ICU) patients were screened for eligibility in this prospective AKI observational study. Serum Cysc, thyroid hormones and serum creatinine (Scr) were measured upon entry to the ICU. We also collected each patient's baseline characteristics including the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE-II) score. The diagnostic performance of Cysc was assessed from the area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUC) in each quartile of thyroid hormone(s).

Results

A total of 114 (25.6%) patients had a clinical diagnosis of AKI upon entry to the ICU. The range of free thyroxine (FT4) value was 4.77 to 39.57 pmol/L. Multivariate linear regression showed that age (standardized beta = 0.128, P < 0.0001), baseline Scr level (standardized beta = 0.290, P < 0.0001), current Scr (standardized beta = 0.453, P < 0.0001), albumin (standardized beta = -0.086, P = 0.006), and FT4 (standardized beta = 0.062, P = 0.039) were related with Cysc. Patients were divided into four quartiles based on FT4 levels. The AUC for Cysc in detecting AKI in each quartile were as follows: 0.712 in quartile I, 0.754 in quartile II, 0.829 in quartile III and 0.797 in quartile IV. There was no significant difference in the AUC between any two groups (all P > 0.05). The optimal cut-off value of Cysc for diagnosing AKI increased across FT4 quartiles (1.15 mg/L in quartile I, 1.15 mg/L in quartile II, 1.35 mg/L in quartile III and 1.45 mg/L in quartile IV).

Conclusions

There was no significant impact of thyroid function on the diagnostic accuracy of Cysc to detect AKI in ICU patients. However, the optimal cut-off value of Cysc to detect AKI could be affected by thyroid function.

Introduction

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a prevalent problem and still a big challenge to both the developed and developing world [1]. About two-thirds of intensive care unit (ICU) patients develop an episode of AKI during their ICU stay [2]. Both short-term and long-term mortality were higher in ICU patients with AKI than those without [3–5]. Studies have found that early detection and treatment of AKI may improve outcomes [2]. Thus, timely diagnosis of AKI development after renal insult is urgent. Cystatin C (Cysc), a 13-kDa cysteine proteinase inhibitor, is freely filtered at the glomerulus and neither secreted nor reabsorbed by renal tubules. This physiological feature makes Cysc an ideal glomerular filtration biomarker. During the past few years, some studies have focused on the potential value of Cysc for the diagnosis and early detection of AKI [6–14]. However, these studies have reported conflicting results. Some studies reported good discrimination for Cysc in the early detection of AKI in various patient populations [7–9, 14, 15], while other studies found that Cysc had poor or moderate ability to predict AKI [6, 10–13]. Besides that, there was no consensus about the appropriate cut-off value for using Cysc to diagnose or predict AKI [6–14, 16]. These inconsistent results limit the usefulness of Cysc in the early detection of AKI in clinical practice.

Cysc is produced by all nucleated cells in the human body at a relatively constant rate [17]. However, recent studies found that thyroid hormones could stimulate the production of Cysc in vitro[18, 19]. Moreover, clinical studies also found that Cysc was significantly associated with thyroid function [20–24]. The impact of thyroid hormones on the diagnostic value of Cysc in detecting AKI has raised concerns in clinical practice [25–27]. To the best of our knowledge, whether thyroid hormones are related to the level of Cysc in ICU patients has never been investigated. The effect of thyroid hormones on the diagnostic accuracy and threshold of Cysc in predicting AKI has also not been defined.

Therefore, we undertook a prospective, observational study in a large population of unselected ICU patients to assess: 1) the relationship between Cysc and thyroid hormones; and 2) the effect of thyroid function on the diagnostic value of Cysc in detecting AKI.

Material and methods

Participants

This prospective study recruited consecutive patients 18 years old and older hospitalized in the ICU of Xinhua Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine between April 2011 and May 2012, including medical and trauma patients. We decided a priori to exclude patients according to the following criteria: 1) past history of any thyroid diseases, such as hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism and thyroid tumors; 2) thyroid nodule found by physical examination when admitted to ICU; 3) pregnancy within the previous six months; 4) undergoing any hormone replacement therapy except insulin use; 5) pre-existing severe renal disease (serum creatinine (Scr) >300 umol/L) or pre-existing dialysis; and 6) undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) in the four weeks before the blood sample was collected. Patients who died or were discharged from the ICU within four hours of admission were also excluded because data collection was difficult for these patients. The Shanghai Jiaotong University Xinhua Hospital Ethics Committee approved the study and waived the requirement for informed consent, because this was an observational study and all laboratory indices observed were commonly measured for all patients in our ICU department.

Definition of acute kidney injury

The patients were diagnosed as having AKI by using the stage 1 AKI criteria of the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) classification: new-onset of at least 1.5-fold increase or ≥0.3 mg/dL (26.5 umol/L) increment of SCr from baseline. If the preadmission Scr was available, we defined baseline creatinine by using the following rules ranked in descending order of preference: 1) the lowest value between three and 365 days preadmission; 2) the lower value of either preadmission Scr within three days preadmission or the lowest Scr measurement in seven days after admission to the ICU, if it was less than the initial creatinine on entry to the ICU; and 3) the lowest value of preadmission Scr within three days. If the value of 2) and 3) were greater than the initial creatinine on entry to the ICU or if the preadmission value was unavailable, then the lower value of either the initial creatinine on entry to the ICU or the lowest pCr measurement in seven days was used. We did not use the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) formula to back-calculate baseline creatinine because using this method to estimate baseline creatinine would result in an overestimation of the prevalence of AKI [28].

Clinical data and laboratory methods

We prospectively collected each patient's demographic and clinical characteristics, including the Acute Physiolgy and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE-II) score (which can range from 0 to 71, with higher scores indicating more severe illness). Serum Cysc, creatinine, glucose, lactate, electrolytes and albumin levels were measured using a Hitachi 7600–120 analyzer (Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan). The analytical range of Cysc in the laboratory of our hospital is 0.4 to 7.5 mg/L. The reported total coefficients of variation are 4.2% at mean concentrations 0.6 mg/L and 3.8% at 1.4 mg/L, respectively. Thyroid hormones, including free triiodothyronine (FT3), free thyroxine (FT4), total triiodothyronine (TT3), total thyroxine (TT4) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), were measured using the ADVIA Centaur immunoassay system (Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc, Tarrytown, NY, USA). Reverse triiodothyronine (rT3) level was measured using the Maglumi 1000 Analyzer chemiluminescence immunoassay system (SNIBE Co, Ltd, Guandong, China). Serum C-reactive protein (CRP) levels were measured using the QuikRead CRP test kit (Orion Diagnostica, Espoo, Finland). We calculated the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) by using the abbreviated MDRD study equation. Blood samples were collected from all eligible patients when they were admitted to the ICU.

Statistical analysis

Continuous variable and categorical variables were presented as mean value ± SD and precent, respectively. Bivariate correlation analysis was utilized to examine the association between two variables. Multivariate linear regression was performed to search for factors independently associated with Cysc. A criterion of P <0.05 for entry and P ≥0.10 for removal was imposed in this procedure. We divided FT4 into quartiles and compared demographics, clinical characteristics and laboratory test results with analysis of variance for continuous variables and chi-square or Fisher’s exact tests for categorical variables. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve was used to examine the performance of Cysc to detect AKI. The curve represented a plot of sensitivity versus 1-specificity. The area under the curve (AUC) was derived from the ROC curve. The differences between AUC were tested by Hanley – McNeil methods [29]. A statistically derived value, based on the Youden index16, maximizing the sum of the sensitivity and specificity was used to define the optimal cut-off value. A two-sided P value <0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance. All analyses were performed with SPSS 13.0 software.

Results

Base-line characteristics and base-line factors related to Cysc

Cysc and thyroid hormones were missed in 12 patients. Those patients were excluded from the study. A total of 446 patients were screened for eligibility in this analysis. The mean age was 69.07 ± 15.58 years and 58.3% were men. Mean Apache-II score was 15.46 ± 7.34. On entry to the ICU, 114 (25.6%) had a clinical diagnosis of AKI. A total of 56 patients died during their ICU stay. In Table 1, bivariate correlation analysis shows that a higher level of Cysc was associated with older age, higher level of baseline Scr and current Scr, higher Apache-II score and lower level of albumin. In addition, there was a negative association between Cysc and TT3 as well as FT3, and a positive association between Cysc and FT4. In multivariate linear regression (Table 2), age (standardized beta = 0.128, P <0.0001), baseline Scr level (standardized beta = 0.290, P <0.0001), current Scr (standardized beta = 0.453, P <0.0001), albumin (standardized beta = -0.086, P = 0.006), and FT4 (standardized beta = 0.062, P = 0.039) were related to Cysc.

Table 1 Factors associated with Cysc by bivariate correlation analysis
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Table 2 Factors associated with Cysc in multivariate linear regression
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Differences in clinical and laboratory characteristics among the quartiles of FT4 are listed in Table 3. Patients in the higher quartiles of FT4 tended to be older and had higher levels of albumin, TT4 and FT3, and a low level of TSH. However, there was no significant difference among the four quartiles in other clinical and laboratory characteristics, including sex, level of baseline Scr, current Scr, Cysc, TT3, rT3, APACHE-II score as well as the prevalence of AKI.

Table 3 Baseline clinical and laboratory characteristics by quartile of FT4
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Association between thyroid hormones and APACHE-II scores

Among the thyroid hormones, only FT4 was not related to APACHE-II scores (P = 0.219). FT3 (r = -0.363, P <0.001), TT3 (r = -0.138, P <0.001), TT4 (r = -0.338, P <0.001), TSH (r = -0.133, P = 0.005) and rT3 (r = -0.205, P <0.001) were all correlated with APACHE-II scores.

Association between Cysc and AKI in patients with different levels of FT4

To evaluate the impact of FT4 on the accuracy of Cysc in the diagnosis of AKI, a ROC curve was drawn in each quartile of FT4 (Figure 1). The AUC was calculated as 0.712 in quartile I, 0.754 in quartile II, 0.829 in quartile III and 0.797 in quartile IV (Table 4). There was no significant difference in AUC between any two groups. The optimal cut-off value of Cysc for diagnosing AKI increased across FT4 quartiles (quartile I and quartile II = 1.15 mg/L, quartile III =1.35 mg/L, quartile IV =1.45 mg/L).

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Receiver operating characteristic curves for Cysc in quartile I (A), quartile II (B), quartile III (C) and quartile IV (D).

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Table 4 Performance of Cysc in diagnosing AKI by quartile of FT4
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Discussion

In this prospective study, we first assessed the impact of thyroid function on the accuracy of Cysc in the diagnosis of AKI in ICU patients. The primary findings of this study are as follows: (1) FT4 was the only index among thyroid hormones that was not correlated with APACHE-II score and still related to the Cysc level after adjusting for several confounding factors; (2) there was no significant difference in the diagnostic performance of Cysc among patients with different FT4 levels; and (3) the optimal cut-off value of Cysc in diagnosing AKI increased as FT4 increased.

Previous studies have shown that some thyroid hormones might be confounded by critical illness and a low FT3 level was correlated with the severity of morbidity and the outcomes of patients in ICUs [30, 31]. Our present study also confirmed the negative association between FT3 level and APACHE-II score. As we know, the severity of illness score was positively associated with the risk of AKI as well as the level of Cysc, and thus FT3 was inversely related to Cysc. However, the level of FT4 was the only index among thyroid hormones that was not related to the APACHE-II score in this study. This indicated that FT4 was less affected by the severity of illness and could reflect a stable state of thyroid hormones as compared with other indices of thyroid hormones. So, FT4 can directly reflect the stimulating effect of thyroid hormones on Cysc and FT4 was positively related to Cysc. In fact, FT4 was the only index independently correlated with Cysc. Based on these results, we chose FT4 as the representative variable to assess the impact of thyroid function on the accuracy of Cysc in the diagnosis of AKI in ICU patients.

Cysc used to be considered less subject to the non-renal variables that impact Scr. However, more recent studies [18–24, 32] have found that several factors are associated with higher Cysc in noncritically ill patients, including older age, male sex, current smoking status, elevated CRP levels as well as thyroid hormones. However, the factors associated with the Cysc level were not well defined in critically ill patients. In a study of 85 ICU patients, the investigator reported that the Cysc level was not affected by low T3 or T3/T4 syndrome [6]. In contrast with this study, we found that Cysc level was not only associated with both baseline Scr and current Scr levels, but also is related to age, and levels of albumin and FT4 in ICU patients.

Results relating to the diagnostic accuracy of Cysc in detecting AKI have been conflicting in previous studies. The AUC for Cysc ranged from 0.55 to 0.99 across different studies [16]. Some previous studies have found that thyroid hormones were associated with Cysc level both in vitro[18, 19] and in vivo[20–24], but whether the thyroid function could affect the performance of Cysc to identify AKI was never investigated before. Our present study showed that the difference of AUC among different FT4 quartiles did not reach statistical significance. Although thyroid hormones could stimulate the production of Cysc at baseline as well as the progress of AKI after a critical illness, the acute decrease of GFR during critical illness was the most important factor for the increment of Cysc from baseline. This may be the reason. However, the optimal cut-off value of Cysc in the diagnosis of AKI increased with increasing FT4 quartile is an interesting finding. This result indicates that FT4 might stimulate Cysc production and, thus, affect the absolute value of Cysc and the optimal cut-off value of Cysc in the diagnosis of AKI. This result may be one of the explanations fpr a wide range of optimal cut-off values of Cysc in detecting AKI in previous studies [16]. It also should be taken into consideration when using Cysc to identify AKI in clinical settings.

Several limitations to our study exist. First, we used Cysc to diagnose rather than predict AKI. We could not exclude the possibility that some non-AKI patients progressed to AKI after their entry into the ICU. However, whether Cysc could serve as an early biomarker of AKI remains uncertain. Second, because some unknown non-GFR determinants of Cysc may exist, the relationship between Cysc and thyroid hormones would be changed if adjusting for those confounding factors.

Conclusions

In this large-scale study of unselected ICU patients, we found that FT4 was the only index among thyroid hormones that was not correlated with APACHE-II score and still related to Cysc level after adjusting for several confounding factors. Thyroid function had no significant impact on the diagnostic accuracy of Cysc to detect AKI in ICU patients. However, the optimal cut-off value of Cysc to detect AKI could be affected by thyroid function.

Key messages

  • FT4 was the only index among thyroid hormones that was not correlated with APACHE-II score and still related to Cysc level after adjusting for several confounding factors.

  • There was no significant impact of thyroid function on the diagnostic accuracy of Cysc to detect AKI in ICU patients.

  • The optimal cut-off value of Cysc to detect AKI could be affected by thyroid function.

Abbreviations

AKI:

acute kidney injury

APACHE-II score:

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II score

AUC:

area under the curve

Cysc:

Cystatin C

eGFR:

estimated glomerular filtration rate

FT3:

free triiodothyronine

FT4:

free thyroxine

GFR:

glomerular filtration rate

NTIS:

nonthyroidal illness syndrome

ROC:

receiver operator characteristic

rT3:

reverse triiodothyronine

TSH:

thyroid-stimulating hormone

TT3:

total triiodothyronine

TT4:

total thyroxine.

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This study was supported by Shanghai public health outstanding subject leader issue (GWDTR201219) and Shanghai Health Bureau (20124261). No conflict of interest exists. No relationship with industry exists.

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