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J Thorac Dis. 2021 Apr;13(4):2532-2550. doi: 10.21037/jtd-21-22.

Narrative review of metabolomics in cardiovascular disease.

Journal of thoracic disease

Julian Müller, Thomas Bertsch, Justus Volke, Alexander Schmid, Rebecca Klingbeil, Yulian Metodiev, Bican Karaca, Seung-Hyun Kim, Simon Lindner, Tobias Schupp, Maximilian Kittel, Gernot Poschet, Ibrahim Akin, Michael Behnes

Affiliations

  1. First Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.
  2. Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Medicine and Transfusion Medicine, Nuremburg General Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany.
  3. Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
  4. Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

PMID: 34012599 PMCID: PMC8107570 DOI: 10.21037/jtd-21-22

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases are accompanied by disorders in the cardiac metabolism. Furthermore, comorbidities often associated with cardiovascular disease can alter systemic and myocardial metabolism contributing to worsening of cardiac performance and health status. Biomarkers such as natriuretic peptides or troponins already support diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of patients with cardiovascular diseases and are represented in international guidelines. However, as cardiovascular diseases affect various pathophysiological pathways, a single biomarker approach cannot be regarded as ideal to reveal optimal clinical application. Emerging metabolomics technology allows the measurement of hundreds of metabolites in biological fluids or biopsies and thus to characterize each patient by its own metabolic fingerprint, improving our understanding of complex diseases, significantly altering the management of cardiovascular diseases and possibly personalizing medicine. This review outlines current knowledge, perspectives as well as limitations of metabolomics for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure, atherosclerosis, ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy. Furthermore, an ongoing research project tackling current inconsistencies as well as clinical applications of metabolomics will be discussed. Taken together, the application of metabolomics will enable us to gain more insights into pathophysiological interactions of metabolites and disease states as well as improving therapies of patients with cardiovascular diseases in the future.

2021 Journal of Thoracic Disease. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Metabolomics; atherosclerosis; heart failure; ischemic heart disease

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jtd-21-22). The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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