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Role of elevated red cell distribution width on acute kidney injury patients after cardiac surgery

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders volume 18, Article number: 166 (2018) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

The aim of the study was to explore associations between elevated red cell distribution width (RDW) and acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients undergoing cardiac surgery (CS-AKI).

Methods

Preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative data of 10,274 patients undergoing cardiac surgery, including demographic data, were prospectively collected from January 2009 to December 2014. Propensity score matching was used on the basis of clinical characteristics and preoperative variables. An elevated RDW was defined as the difference between RDW 24 h after cardiac surgery and the latest RDW before cardiac surgery.

Results

A total of 10,274 patients were included in the unmatched cohort, and 3146 patients in the propensity-matched cohort. In the unmatched cohort, the overall CS-AKI incidence was 32.8% (n = 3365) with a hospital mortality of 5.5% (n = 185). In the propensity-matched cohort, the elevated RDW in AKI patients was higher than in patients without AKI (0.3% (0.0%, 0.7%) vs 0.5% (0.1, 1.1%), P <  0.001) and the elevated RDW incidences were 0.4% (0.1%, 0.9%), 0.6% (0.2%, 1.1%) and 1.1% (0.3%, 2.1%) in stage 1, 2 and 3 AKI patients (P <  0.001). Among propensity-matched patients with CS-AKI, the level of elevated RDW in non-survivors was higher than in survivors [1.2% (0.5%, 2.3%) vs 0.5% (0.1%, 1.0%), P <  0.001] and a 0.1% increase in elevated RDW was associated with a 0.24% higher risk of within-hospital mortality in patients with CS-AKI. Estimating the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) area under the curve (AUC) showed that an elevated RDW had moderate discriminative power for AKI development (AUC = 0.605, 95% CI, 0.586–0.625; P <  0.001) and hospital mortality (AUC = 0.716, 95% CI, 0.640–0.764; P <  0.001) in the propensity-matched cohort.

Conclusions

An elevated RDW might be an independent prognostic factor for the severity and poor prognosis of CS-AKI.

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Background

Red blood cell distribution width (RDW), which is a marker that describes the morphology of red blood cells and is routinely reported in complete blood counts, is a measurement of erythrocyte variability and heterogeneity. RDW can be expressed either in absolute values (RDW-SD) or as a percentage (RDW %); the latter approach is more widely used in routine laboratory practice. RDW s together with the value of mean corpuscular volume (MCV) to classify, diagnose and differentiate the causes of anemia, especially iron-deficiency anemia [1]. Recently, several studies have shown that a high RDW level is a strong independent predictor of increased morbidity and mortality in patients with heart failure, myocardial infarction, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, primary biliary cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis C, pulmonary embolism, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), leukoaraiosis and drug-eluting stent restenosis [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. However, there is limited research regarding the potential association between elevated RDW and the development, severity and prognosis of AKI associated with cardiac surgery (CS-AKI). The present study investigated the potential association between elevated RDW and the development and prognosis of CS-AKI patients in order to identify a novel biomarker for the early diagnosis, clinical severity and prognosis of CS-AKI.

Methods

Study population

We retrospectively analyzed data from patients who underwent cardiac surgery from January 2009 to December 2014 in the Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University and matched them 1:1 based on propensity scoring. The criteria for exclusion were: age (< 18 years), anemia (hemoglobin < 120 g/L for males; hemoglobin < 110 g/L for females), solitary kidney or history of kidney transplants, severe renal dysfunction with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ≤ 30 mL/min/1.73 m2 at baseline; preoperative circulatory assist devices, preoperative renal replacement therapy (RRT) or those undergoing a heart transplant; insufficient examination results at baseline.

AKI and RDW definitions

AKI was defined according to the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) [10] criteria as described recently [11]: 1) Increase in serum creatinine (Scr) by ≥0.3 mg/dL (≥ 26.5 μmol/L) within 48 h; 2) Increase in Scr to ≥1.5 times baseline, which is known or presumed to have occurred within the prior 7 days; 3) Urine volume <  0.5 mL/kg/h for 6 h and staged according to the Scr and urine output. An elevated RDW was defined as the difference between the RDW value 24 h after cardiac surgery and the latest RDW value before cardiac surgery. The reference range for RDW value was 11.0–16.0% at the Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University.

Clinical trial design and methods

Informed consent was provided by all of the patients according to hospital guidelines. At admission, baseline blood testing, echocardiography and electrocardiography were performed. Recorded clinical data were preoperative baseline characteristics and blood tests, complications, preoperative renal function (determined by the latest serum creatinine value before cardiac surgery) as well as perioperative data about cardiac functions according to the 1994 New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification and intraoperative variables which included cardiac output data derived from echocardiography, cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and aortic cross-clamp (ACC) durations in minutes, as well as types of surgery. The recorded postoperative variables were mechanical ventilation duration and urine output during the first post-surgery 24 h as well as AKI incidence and stage in addition to hospital mortality.

Outcomes

The primary endpoint was the occurrence of AKI. The secondary endpoint was all cause of mortality.

Statistical analysis

All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS Statistics for Windows (Version 22.0. Armonk, NY: IBM Corp). Propensity score matching was used to adjust for observed differences in characteristics of patients with and without AKI. Comparisons of the differences in the baseline characteristics were performed using a Student’s t-test for parametric data and a Mann-Whitney U-test for non-parametric data. Categorical variables were compared using a chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test.

Associations of pre-, intra-, post-operative and demographic data were tested with Wilcoxon rank-sum or two-sample t-tests for continuous and a Pearson χ2 test for categorical variables. Continuous variables are presented as mean ± standard deviation or median (interquartile range [IQR]) and categorical variables are shown as frequency counts (%). A multivariable logistic regression model was used for estimation of unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios (ORs). Pearson’s and Spearman correlation tests were used to determine the correlation between variables. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves were constructed to analyze the discriminating power of elevated RDW for predicting the development of AKI and all-cause hospital mortality. ROC curve analysis statistics were determined with area under the curve (AUC) (95% CI) estimated by bootstrapping. Two-tailed P-values < 0.05 were considered to be statistically significant for all analyses.

Results

Patient characteristics of the study population

Unmatched cohort

A total of 10,274 patients undergoing cardiac surgery were enrolled; most were men (56.7%). The overall CS-AKI incidence was 32.8% (n = 3365) with a hospital mortality of 5.5% (n = 185). The mean age at hospital admission was 53.3 years (± SD 13.9). The mean age, proportion of males mean body mass index (BMI), hemoglobin, white blood cells (WBC), serum creatinine (SCr), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum uric acid (SUA), CPB time, elevated RDW, preoperative proportions of hypertension, diabetes mellitus (DM), coronary angiography, chronic heart failure (NYHA > II), aortic cross-clamp (ACC) time were increased in the AKI group, whereas baseline albumin was decreased (Table 1).

Table 1 Comparison of the Demographic and Baseline Characteristics of unmatched and matched AKI and non-AKI groups
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Risk factors for the development of CS-AKI

All the variables recorded in Table 1 were put into a univariate logistic regression model and the detailed results are presented in Table 2. The odds ratios of CS-AKI in the unmatched cohort for the independent risk factors that were computed from the multivariate logistic regression model are shown in Table 3. The independent risk factors that were computed from the multivariate logistic regression model were age (OR = 1.036, 95% CI: 1.029–1.042, P <  0.001), male (OR = 1.873, 95% CI: 1.622–2.164, P <  0.001), BMI (OR = 1.035, 95% CI: 1.016–1.055, P <  0.001), elevated RDW (OR = 1.302, 95% CI: 1.209–1.401, P <  0.001), BUN (OR = 1.076, 95% CI: 1.041–1.112, P <  0.001), SUA (OR = 1.002, 95% CI: 1.001–1.003, P <  0.001), CPB time (additional 30 min) (OR = 1.627 95% CI: 1.491–1.775, P <  0.001).

Table 2 Univariate logistic regression analysis of risk factors for CS-AKI
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Table 3 Multivariate logistic regression analysis of risk factors for CS-AKI in the unmatched Cohort
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The association between elevated RDW and the development and prognosis of CS-AKI

The AKI group had a higher level of elevated RDW than the non-AKI group[0.5% (0.1%, 1.0%) vs 0.3% (0, 0.6%), P <  0.001]. Each 0.1% increment in elevated RDW was associated with a 1.1% higher risk of CS-AKI. The elevated RDW were 0.4% (0.1%, 0.9%), 0.5% (0.2%, 1.0%), 0.8% (0.3%, 1.7%) in stages 1, 2 and 3 of AKI, respectively. An increment in elevated RDW was associated with having a higher stage of AKI (P = 0.02). The patients were divided into two groups according to whether the RDW baseline was ≥16.0%. The incidence of CS-AKI in the RDW group (> 16.0%) was significantly higher than in the RDW group (≤ 16.0%, 33.9% vs 38.4%, P <  0.001). The adjusted odds ratio of CS-AKI development in the RDW group > 16.0% was 1.67-fold, compared with RDW ≤ in the 16.0% group. Among patients with CS-AKI, the level of elevated RDW in non-survivors was higher than survivors[1.1% (0.4%, 2.0%) vs 0.4% (0.1%, 0.9%), P <  0.001]. There was no significant difference in elevated RDW between non-survivors and survivors without CS-AKI [0.4% (− 0.1%, 0.9%) vs 0.3% (0.0, 0.6%), P = 0.875]. A 0.1% increase in elevated RDW was associated with a 0.24% higher risk of within-hospital mortality in those patients with CS-AKI.

Bivariate correlation analyses of elevated RDW and various clinical and laboratory parameters of the study population in the unmatched cohort

The results of bivariate correlation analyses showed that there was a positive correlation between elevated RDW and age (r = 0.188, P <  0.001), HTN (r = 0.080, P <  0.001), DM (r = 0.052, P <  0.001), BUN(r = 0.039, P <  0.001), CPB time (r = 0.159, P <  0.001), ACC time (r = 0.136, P <  0.001), AKI stage (r = 0.171, P <  0.001) and a negative correlation with male (r = − 0.096, P <  0.001), BMI(r = − 0.045, P = 0.01), hemoglobin (r = − 0.147, P <  0.001), Albumin (r = − 0.047, P <  0.001), and eGFR (r = − 0.105, P <  0.001) (see Table 4).

Table 4 Bivariate correlation analyses of elevated RDW and various clinical and laboratory parameters of the study population in the umatched Cohort
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Propensity-matched cohort

Propensity score matching created a matched cohort of 1573 in each group. In this matched cohort, few differences remained in non-AKI and AKI groups (Table 1). The results of univariate logistic regression model are presented in Table 2. The odds ratios of CS-AKI in the matched cohort for the independent risk factors that were computed from the multivariate logistic regression model are shown in Table 5. In the matched cohort, the elevated RDW in AKI patients was higher than in patients without AKI (0.3% (0.0%, 0.7%) vs 0.5% (0.1, 1.1%), P <  0.001). The elevated RDW incidences were 0.4% (0.1%, 0.9%), 0.6% (0.2%, 1.1%) and 1.1% (0.3%, 2.1%) in stage 1, 2 and 3 AKI patients (P <  0.001). Among patients with CS-AKI, the level of elevated RDW in non-survivors was higher than in survivors [1.2% (0.5%, 2.3%) vs 0.5% (0.1%, 1.0%), P <  0.001] and a 0.1% increase in elevated RDW was associated with a 0.24% higher risk of within-hospital mortality in patients with CS-AKI.

Table 5 Multivariate logistic regression analysis of risk factors for CS-AKI in the matched Cohort
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Receiver-operating characteristic curve analysis for prediction of the development and prognosis of CS-AKI in the matched cohort by elevated red cell distribution width level

To assess discrimination of RDW for all causes of hospital mortality, we used receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) analysis and determined the area under the curve (AUC). The cut-off value of elevated RDW for predicting CS-AKI was 0.30%. The AUC value was 0.605 (95% CI: 0.586–0.625, P <  0.001) and the sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio and negative likelihood ratio of elevated RDW were 51.6%, 63.3%, 1.41 and 0.76, respectively.

Elevated RDW had moderate discriminative power for predicting the death of CS-AKI patients. The cut-off value of elevated RDW for predicting death of CS-AKI patients was 0.75%; AUC value 0.716 (95% CI: 0.640–0.764, P <  0.001) and the sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio and negative likelihood ratio of elevated RDW were 71.4%, 65.5%, 1.53 and 0.83, respectively.

Discussion

The main finding of the present study was the establishment of an independent association between elevated RDW and in-hospital mortality with CS-AKI. An elevated RDW remains a significant predictor for the severity and mortality of CS-AKI patients following multivariable adjustments. However, there was no clear evidence to show that the elevated RDW was a significant predictor for the development of CS-AKI and there was no significant effect modification between an elevated RDW and in-hospital mortality in those patients without CS-AKI.

A previous study showed that RDW is a strong and independent prognostic predictor of mortality and morbidity in patients with CKD, which described RDW changes in CKD patients undergoing hemodialysis for the first time [12]. Recent research indicates that a higher RDW was independently associated with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in peritoneal dialysis (PD) and in end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients [13, 14]. Mario Sičaja et al. found that for each 1% point increase in the RDW level the one-year all cause mortality risk was increased by 54% in patients requiring chronic dialysis [15].

Recent clinical research on RDW and AKI have focused on RDW and contrast-induced AKI in percutaneous coronary interventions (CI-AKI). The results showed that RDW has become a recent target of investigations into new predictors of kidney function and mortality after percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) [2, 16,17,18]. The study by Atsushi Mizuno et al. analyzed 102 patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction and found that RDW was an independent variable predicting CI-AKI and has additional value to the Mehran risk score for predicting contrast-induced (CI)-AKI [19]. Other researchers have investigated the association between RDW and CI-AKI and suggested that RDW was associated independently with the development of CI-AKI and may well be a useful marker in CI-AKI risk stratification [16, 20].

To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first research in the literature that has explored the association between elevated RDW and CS-AKI. However, it needs more research to establish an association between elevated RDW and CS-AKI incidence. The mechanisms underlying the association between higher RDW and poor prognosis have not been clearly determined. Several possible explanations can be considered in cardiac surgery patients. Hemolysis, blood loss, hypothermia, ischemia, and perfusion injury as well as neutrophil activation during CPB play a pivotal role in oxidative stress and the associated activation of inflammation. In particular, ischemia and reperfusion injury during cardiac surgery can lead to the generation of pro-inflammatory mediators [21,22,23,24]. In our research, the results of bivariate correlation analyses showed that there was a positive correlation between elevated RDW and the CPB and ACC times. Inflammation may play a role in the regulation of RDW by direct myelo-suppression of erythroid precursors, decreasing erythropoietin production, reducing the bioavailability of iron and by promoting erythropoietin resistance and red cell apoptosis [25,26,27,28,29].

Related research [30,31,32,33,34] has demonstrated that oxidative stress increases anisocytosis by disrupting erythropoiesis and altering blood cell membrane deformability and thus the red blood cell circulation lifetime, ultimately leading to an increase in RDW. In addition, during CPB, ischemia and reperfusion play a pivotal role in oxidative stress by initiating a series of biochemical events [22]. However, in our study, we were not able to adjust the analysis to include inflammatory markers, C-reactive protein (CRP) and other factors, as these were not routinely measured at patient admission.

The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) is activated by arterial underfilling caused by CPB, heart failure, shock and so on after cardiac surgery. The activation of the RAAS system and adrenergic hormone release could cause increased RDW with erythropoiesis, resulting in a poor prognosis [34]. There is evidence suggesting that angiotensin II acts as a growth factor for erythroid precursors as well as an erythropoietin secretagogue resulting in an increment in RDW due to macrocytosis from skipped cell divisions [35].

RDW is increased in conditions such as malnutrition and deficiencies such as in vitamin B12 [36], iron [37] or folic acid [38], increased red cell destruction (such as hemolysis), or after blood transfusion. Previous research has reported that RDW was correlated negatively with nutrition in heart failure [39] and HD patients [13]. This latter study showed that elevated RDW was negatively correlated with the albumin level. Patients with malnutrition have a higher risk of infection and adverse outcomes and elevated RDW and poor prognosis may relate to the fact that there is an interaction between malnutrition and inflammation.

The present research work has several limitations. First, it was a retrospective design from a single central pool of patients. Second, we did not measure hematopoietic factors (including iron, vitamin B12, folate, etc.) that may influence RDW. Third, though neurohumoral activation and inflammation may be a mechanistic link between elevated RDW and poor outcomes, we did not assess laboratory markers including CRP, other pro-inflammatory cytokines, norepinephrine and angiotensin II. Despite these limitations, a major strength of the present study is that it had a sufficient number of patients undergoing cardiac surgery to ensure adequate reliability of our incidence and mortality estimates. Future studies of a larger cohort of single center pool patients will be required to confirm the results of the present investigation.

Conclusion

The results of the present study suggest, that an elevated RDW might be an independent prognostic factor for the severity and poor prognosis of CS-AKI.

Abbreviations

ACC:

Aortic cross-clamp

AKI:

Acute kidney injury

AUC:

Area under the curve

BMI:

Body mass index

BUN:

Blood urea nitrogen

CI-AKI:

AKI in percutaneous coronary interventions

COPD:

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

CPB:

Cardiopulmonary bypass

CRP:

C-reactive protein

CS-AKI:

AKI in patients undergoing cardiac surgery

CVD:

Cardiovascular disease

DM:

Diabetes mellitus

eGFR:

Estimated glomerular filtration rate

ESRD:

End stage renal disease

IQR:

Interquartile range

KDIGO:

Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes

LOS:

Length-of-stay

MCV:

Mean corpuscular volume

ORs:

Odds ratios

PCI:

Percutaneous coronary interventions

PD:

Peritoneal dialysis

RAAS:

Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system

RDW:

Red cell distribution width

ROC:

Receiver-operating characteristic

RRT:

Renal replacement therapy

Scr:

Serum creatinine

SUA:

Serum uric acid

WBC:

White blood cells

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Funding

The work was supported by The Project of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning [grant number 15GWZK0502]; The Projects of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [grant number 14DZ2260200]; The Project of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Kidney and Blood Purification [grant number 17140902300].

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  1. Zhouping Zou, Yamin Zhuang and Lan Liu contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Nephrology, Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, No 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, China

    Zhouping Zou, Bo Shen, Jiarui Xu, Wuhua Jiang, Jie Teng & Xiaoqiang Ding

  2. Shanghai Medical Center of Kidney, No 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, China

    Zhouping Zou, Bo Shen, Jie Teng & Xiaoqiang Ding

  3. Shanghai Institute for Kidney and Dialysis, No 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, China

    Zhouping Zou, Bo Shen, Jiarui Xu, Wuhua Jiang, Jie Teng & Xiaoqiang Ding

  4. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Kidney and Blood Purification, No 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, China

    Zhouping Zou, Bo Shen, Jiarui Xu, Wuhua Jiang, Jie Teng & Xiaoqiang Ding

  5. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, No 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, China

    Yamin Zhuang, Lan Liu & Zhe Luo

  6. Hemodialysis Quality of Control Center of Shanghai, No 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, China

    Jie Teng & Xiaoqiang Ding

  7. Department of Nephrology, Xiamen Branch, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, No 668 Jinhu Road, Xiamen, 361015, Fujian, China

    Jie Teng & Xiaoqiang Ding

  8. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, No 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, China

    Chunsheng Wang

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ZZ, YZ, LL, JT and XD were responsible for the conception and design of the study. ZZ, YZ, LL, BS, JX, WJ, ZL and JT were responsible for acquisition and analysis of data; furthermore, ZZ, BS, JX, WJ and ZL were in charge of statistical analysis. ZZ, YZ and LL drafted the manuscript; JT, CW and XD revised and commented the draft. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Zou, Z., Zhuang, Y., Liu, L. et al. Role of elevated red cell distribution width on acute kidney injury patients after cardiac surgery. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 18, 166 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12872-018-0903-4

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