Abstract
Background: Statin has been widely used to treat hyperlipidemia because of its high potency in decreasing cholesterol levels. The present study aimed to examine the lipid-lowering effect of rosuvastatin and the composition, diversity and species abundance of gut microbiome in association with rosuvastatin efficacy. Trial registration: ChiCTR-ORC-17013212 at the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, November 2, 2017.Results: Totally 64 patients with hyperlipidemia were treated with 10 mg/day of rosuvastatin for 4–8 weeks. Blood lipid indicators triglycerides (TG), total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) were measured before and after the treatment. Stool samples were collected right after the treatment. Following total DNA extraction and PCR amplification of 16S rRNA gene, Illumina sequencing was performed for gut microbiome identification, classification and characterization. All the patients showed a significant blood lipid reduction after the treatment. The patients were grouped according to parallel manner design. Group I had 33 patients whose blood lipid levels dropped to the normal levels from week 4, with 58.5% reduction in LDL-C and 26.6% reduction in TC. Group II had 31 patients whose blood lipid levels were still above the normal levels after 8 weeks therapy, but with 41.9% reduction in LDL-C and 31.2% reduction in TC. Based on Operational Taxonomic Unit data, Alpha-diversity by Shannon Index was different between the two groups, and beta-diversity by Principle Component Analysis exhibited separated patterns of the two groups. The differences were also observed in the relative-abundance at phylum, family, and genus levels of the two groups. Linear discriminate analysis illustrated that the abundance of 29 taxa was higher in group I, while the abundance of other 13 taxa was higher in group II. Phyla Firmicutes and Fusobacteria had negative correlation to LDL-C level, but Cyanobacteria and Lentisphaerae had a positive correlation to LDL-C level. Moreover, gender and age were also found somehow correlated to microbial community composition.Conclusion: Rosuvastatin therapy had different blood lipid-lowering effect on hyperlipidemia. The gut microbiota exhibited variation in community composition, diversity and taxa in association to rosuvastatin hypolipidemic effect. These results indicate that modulation of gut microflora, especially the negative/positive correlated species might strengthen statin efficacy in statin-inadequate patients.
Highlights
Hyperlipidemia, high blood cholesterol and Triglycerides, is considered a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, ischemic stroke, and peripheral artery disease
Parallel manner design was applied as Group I with 33 patients whose blood lipid levels dropped to the normal levels from week 4 and Group II with 31 patients whose blood lipid levels were still above the normal levels after 8 weeks rosuvastatin intervention
The therapy was well tolerated in all the subjects with good compliance and with no obvious drug-related adverse events (AEs) during rosuvastatin administration
Summary
Hyperlipidemia, high blood cholesterol and Triglycerides, is considered a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, ischemic stroke, and peripheral artery disease. Water-soluble and lipidsoluble rosuvastatin enters the human body without metabolism, enhance its lipid-lowering activity It reduces cholesterol levels and other lipid profiles such as TGs. Rosuvastatin is widely used in primary and secondary prevention of coronary artery disease (Athyros et al, 2002; Zhou and Liao, 2010; Mihaylova et al, 2012; Perk et al, 2012; Taylor et al, 2013; Al-Mohaissen et al, 2016; Lamprecht et al, 2017; Yeramaneni et al, 2017). Trial registration: ChiCTRORC-17013212 at the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, November 2, 2017
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