High concentrations of resistin in the peripheral blood of patients with acute basal ganglia hemorrhage are associated with poor outcome.

Purpose: Resistin increases in peripheral blood of patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). We sought to evaluate its relation with disease outcome.

Materials And Methods: Thirty healthy controls and 86 patients with acute ICH were included. Plasma samples were obtained on admission. Its concentration was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

Results: Thirty-two patients (37.2%) died from ICH in a week. The plasma resistin level (24.2 +/- 9.7 ng/mL) in patients was significantly higher than that (8.8 +/- 2.4 ng/mL) in healthy controls after adjustment by age, sex, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, and body mass index using analysis of covariate (F = 9.507, P = .003).A univariate correlation analysis found Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score and ICH volume, but a multivariate linear regression only selected GCS score (t = -4.587, P < .001) to be related to plasma resistin level. On a multivariate logistic regression, plasma resistin level (odds ratio = 1.257, 95% confidence interval = 1.058-1.492, P = .009) was an independent variable predicting 1-week mortality. A receiver operating characteristic curve identified that a plasma resistin level greater than 26.3 ng/mL predicted 1-week mortality of patients with 81.2% sensitivity and 81.5% specificity (P < .001). Areas under curves of GCS score and ICH volume were not statistically significantly larger than that of plasma resistin level (P > .05).

Conclusions: Increased resistin level is found after ICH, in association with a poor clinical outcome.