Forecasting of recurrent cardiovascular events in 6 months of monitoring of patients after acute myocardial infarction with concomitant obesity

Abstract

The article analyzes the dependence of blood serum vitronectin and galectin-3 levels in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and concomitant obesity associated with the emergence of recurrent cardiovascular events for 6 months of follow-up. Vitronectin showed the best results for predicting repeated cardiovascular events in the form of unstable angina and/or AMI with high specificity (96 %) and sensitivity (86.7 %) at a level >283.27 ng/ml. Also it was found that the definition of galectin-3 level in obese patients gave an opportunity to predict a high risk of recurrent coronary events during a 6-month follow-up period with a sensitivity of 94.4 % and a specificity of 78.9 % at a level of galectin-3 > 12.83 ng/ml.