Review Article

Metabolomics and Cardiology: Toward the Path of Perinatal Programming and Personalized Medicine

Table 1

Recent relevant works concerning metabolomics in cardiology are shown chronologically with the main metabolites shifts.

AuthorsPatientsMethodsSampleMetabolites results

Feng et al. 2016 [7]59 CHD patients and 43 healthy controls
Untargeted metabolomics method
Plasma, urine
GlcNAc-6-P and mannitol in CHD
Ahmad et al. 2016 [8]41 patients with end-stage heart failureTandem flow injection
Mass spectrometry
Plasma long chain acetylcarnitines in chronic heart failure
Oni-Orisan et al. 2016 [9]123 patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) versus 39 controlsMass spectrometryPlasma cytochrome P450-derived epoxyeicosatrienoic acids metabolites
in CAD
Deidda et al. 2015 [4]24 heart failure patients versus 9 controls1H-NMR
Plasma 2-hydroxybutyrate, in HF patients

glycine, methylmalonate, and myoinositol in HF patients
Zordoky et al. 2015 [10]44 HF patients versus 20 controlsLC/MS 1H-NMR
Serum acylcarnitines, carnitine, creatinine, betaine amino acids, ketone bodies in HF patients

phosphatidylcholines, lysophosphatidylcholines, sphingomyelin in HF patients
Cheng et al. 2015 [11]401 HF patients versus 114 controlsMass spectrometry
Plasma phosphatidylcholines, arginine

ornithine, spermidine, spermine phenylalanine, tyrosine
Würtz et al. 2015 [12]1373 cardiovascular eventsQuantitative nuclear magnetic resonanceSerum phenylalanine, monounsaturated fatty acids in cardiovascular events

omega 6 fatty acids, docosahexaenoic acids in cardiovascular events
Zhong et al. 2014 [13]157 hypertension patients versus 99 controls1H-NMRSerum VLDL, LDL, lactic acid, acetone

valine, alanine, pyroacemic acid, inose, p-hydroxyphenylalanine, methylhistidine in hypertension patients
Vaarhorst et al. 2014 [14]79 cases of coronary heart disease1H-NMRPlasma and serum ornithine, TMAO

valine, arginine, creatinine
Shi et al. 2014 [15]45 cases of coronary heart disease versus 15 controls1H-NMRPlasma leucine, N-acetyl glycoprotein, α-glucose, β-glucose, phenylalanine, acetone, HDL, glutamate, glutamine, methylalanine, lysine, tyrosine, ornithine, taurine, proline, lactic acid, tryptophan, valine, acetyl-glutamic acid

β-hydroxy-isobutyric acid
Rizza et al. 2014 [16]17 major cardiovascular events (MACE) patients versus 50 controlsMass spectrometrySerum medium and long chain acylcarnitines in MACE patients
Kalim et al.
2013 [17]
100 individuals dead of a cardiovascular cause versus 100 controls
Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometryPlasma oleoyl carnitine in CV patients
Tenori et al. 2013 [18]185 heart failure patients versus 111 controls1H-NMRSerum, urine phenylalanine, tyrosine, isoleucine, creatine, TMAO, lipid, formate, lipoprotein, hypoxanthine, proline, urea, dimethylamine, serine, acetate, methanol

valine, choline, arginine, creatinine, dimethylsulfone, Gln+ Gli, alanine, l-dopa, dimethylglycine, citrate, lactate, lysine, uridine, methionine
Desmoulin et al. 2013 [19]126 acute heart failure (AHF) patients1H-NMRPlasma lactate +
low cholesterol =
short term mortality
Samara et al. 2013 [20]25 acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) patients versus 16 controls
Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometryBreath acetone, pentane in ADHF
Magnusson et al. 2013 [21]253 cardiovascular disease patients (CVD) versus 253 controlsLiquid chromatography/mass spectrometryPlasma branched and aromatic amino acids in CVD
Bodi et al. 2012 [22]20 angioplasty induced myocardial ischemia versus 9 controls1H-NMRSerum phosphoethanolamine, lactate, glucose, tyrosine, phenylalanine, glycerol in AIMI
Kang et al. 2011 [23] 15 heart failure patients versus 20 controls1H-NMRUrine acetate, acetone, methylmalonic acid, cytosine, phenylacetylglycine

1-methylnicotinamide