Risk factors for the occurrence of cancer treatment-related cardiac dysfunction in patients with primary non-small cell lung cancer after PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors therapy
ObjectiveTo investigate the risk factors for patients with primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) suffering from cancer treatment-related cardiac dysfunction (CTRCD) after programmed death 1 (PD-1)/programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitors therapy. MethodsThe clinical data of 192 patients with primary NSCLC receiving PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors therapy were retrospectively analyzed, and they were assigned to CTRCD group (n=18) or non-CTRCD group (n=174) according to the presence of CTRCD occurred. The clinical data were compared between the CTRCD group and the non-CTRCD group. The risk factors for patients with primary NSCLC suffering from CTRCD after receiving PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors therapy were analyzed by using the multivariate Logistic regression model. The efficiency of risk factors for alone and jointly predicting patients suffering from CTRCD was evaluated by employing the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.ResultsPatients of the CTRCD group obtained a higher proportion of concomitant hypertension, and higher hemoglobin level, red blood cell distribution width-standard deviation (RDW-SD), plasma D-dimer level, serum cystatin C level as compared with the non-CTRCD group (P<0.05). The results of multivariate Logistic regression analysis revealed that serum cystatin C level, plasma D-dimer level, and RDW-SD were the independent risk factors for patients with primary NSCLC suffering from CTRCD after PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors therapy (P<0.05). The results of ROC analysis indicated that areas under the curve of serum cystatin C level, plasma D-dimer level, and RDW-SD in predicting patients with primary NSCLC suffering from CTRCD after receiving PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors therapy were 0.711, 0.774, 0.687, respectively, and area under the curve of the combined prediction of the three was 0.808. ConclusionSerum cystatin C level, plasma D-dimer level, and RDW-SD are the independent risk factors for patients with primary NSCLC suffering from CTRCD after receiving PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors therapy, and the combined detection of the three exerts relatively favorable predictive values on these patients suffering from CTRCD.