Abstract 15818: Association of Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential With Incident Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
Michael C Honigberg, Alex P Reiner, Mary Roberts, Charles Kooperberg, Pinkal Desai, Alexander G Bick, Pradeep Natarajan, JoAnn E Manson, Eric A Whitsel, Charles Eaton- Physiology (medical)
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Introduction: Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) is the age-related expansion of blood cells with somatic mutations, most commonly in DMNT3A , TET2 , and ASXL1 . CHIP is a risk factor for coronary heart disease as well as heart failure (HF). Experimental HF models suggest a role of CHIP pro-inflammatory myeloid cells on cardiac dysfunction via fibrotic remodeling and hypertrophy. However, whether CHIP associates with incident HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), or both is currently unknown.
Hypothesis: We hypothesized that CHIP is more strongly related to HFpEF than HFrEF.
Methods: We studied a multiethnic sample of postmenopausal women without prevalent HF from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI). Whole genome sequencing was performed through the NHLBI TOPMed Program, and CHIP was detected based on 74 pre-specified myeloid driver mutations. Participants were followed through March 2020 with physician adjudication of HFrEF and HFpEF. Cox models tested the association of CHIP with incident HFpEF and HFrEF with adjustment for demographic/clinical risk factors and inverse probability weighting to account for the TOPMed sampling scheme.
Results: Among 5,214 women, the mean age was 62 years, and 7.8% had CHIP. Over a median follow-up of 15 years, age-adjusted HFpEF incidence rates were 5.86 (95%CI 5.63-6.10) vs. 3.72 (95%CI 3.68-3.77) per 1,000 person-years among CHIP carriers vs. non-carriers. After multivariable adjustment, CHIP was associated with a 42% increased risk of incident HFpEF (HR 1.42, 95%CI 6-91%; P =0.02). In contrast, there was no evidence of association between CHIP and HFrEF ( Table 1 ). HFpEF was more strongly associated with TET2 CHIP (HR 2.50, 95%CI 1.54-4.06; P <0.001) than with DNMT3A or ASXL1 ( Table 1 ).
Conclusions: CHIP, especially TET2 CHIP, is associated with incident HFpEF. This finding has potential precision medicine implications for HFpEF prevention and treatment.