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- Title
Serum Periostin as a Biomarker for Comorbid Chronic Rhinosinusitis in Patients with Asthma.
- Authors
Takamitsu Asano; Yoshihiro Kanemitsu; Masaya Takemura; Makoto Yokota; Kensuke Fukumitsu; Norihisa Takeda; Hiroya Ichikawa; Takehiro Uemura; Osamu Takakuwa; Hirotsugu Ohkubo; Ken Maeno; Yutaka Ito; Tetsuya Oguri; Yumi Maki; Junya Ono; Shoichiro Ohta; Yoshihisa Nakamura; Kenji Izuhara; Motohiko Suzuki; Akio Niimi
- Abstract
<bold>Rationale: </bold>Periostin is a matricellular protein that is involved in the pathophysiology of allergic rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis, and asthma. Associations of serum periostin with systemic and airway eosinophilic inflammation and comorbid chronic rhinosinusitis in patients with asthma have been demonstrated. Although serum periostin is positioned as a marker of helper T cell 2 immune responses, its implication regarding the presence of comorbid upper airway diseases in patients with asthma remains unclear.<bold>Objectives: </bold>To investigate the utility of serum periostin as a diagnostic biomarker for upper airway disease in patients with asthma.<bold>Methods: </bold>We prospectively enrolled 65 patients with stable asthma, 20 without upper airway disease, 22 with rhinitis, and 23 with chronic rhinosinusitis (13 with nasal polyps, 10 without). Serum periostin, eotaxin, total IgE, fractional exhaled nitric oxide, and blood and sputum eosinophil levels were measured and compared between upper airway disease subtypes. We evaluated the utility of each biomarker in detecting upper airway disease, associations among the biomarkers, and severity of upper airway disease as measured by the Lund-Mackay score for sinus computed tomography.<bold>Results: </bold>Serum periostin levels were higher in patients with asthma who had chronic rhinosinusitis (109.6 ± 47.4 ng/ml) than in those without upper airway disease (83.2 ± 22.9 ng/ml) (P = 0.04). Serum periostin levels in patients with asthma who had chronic rhinosinusitis and nasal polyps were significantly higher (130.0 ± 46.6 ng/ml) than in those without nasal polyps (87.9 ± 37.7 ng/ml) (P = 0.001). Serum periostin levels were not associated with the presence or the severity of rhinitis. In contrast, receiver operating characteristic curve analyses showed moderate diagnostic accuracy for detecting chronic rhinosinusitis (area under the curve, 0.71; P = 0.01) and high accuracy for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (area under the curve, 0.86; P = 0.0002). When we compared patients with asthma who had comorbid chronic rhinosinusitis and nasal polyps with patients with asthma without these comorbidities, we found serum periostin to be the sole biomarker among those tested for detecting the presence of nasal polyps. Serum periostin was also the sole biomarker that significantly correlated with Lund-Mackay score in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (r = 0.44; P = 0.04).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Serum periostin is useful for detecting chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps and predicting radiological chronic rhinosinusitis severity in patients with asthma. Clinical trial registered with the UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN000017533).
- Subjects
JAPAN; ASTHMA; CELL adhesion molecules; CHRONIC diseases; CLINICAL trials; INFLAMMATION; LONGITUDINAL method; NASAL polyps; REGRESSION analysis; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; COMORBIDITY; SEVERITY of illness index; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2017, Vol 14, Issue 5, p667
- ISSN
2329-6933
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1513/AnnalsATS.201609-720OC