Front. Nutr.Frontiers in NutritionFront. Nutr.2296-861XFrontiers Media S.A.10.3389/fnut.2020.00123NutritionSystematic ReviewMonounsaturated Fatty Acid Levels May Not Affect Cardiovascular Events: Results From a Mendelian Randomization AnalysisMazidiMohsen1*KatsikiNiki2ShekoohiNiloofar3BanachMaciej4561Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom2Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, First Department of Internal Medicine, Diabetes Center, Medical School, AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece3Department of Cellular and Molecular Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran4Department of Hypertension, Medical University of Lodz, Łódz, Poland5Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital Research Institute (PMMHRI), Łódz, Poland6Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland
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Background/Aim: Several observational studies evaluated the links between serum monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) and cardiovascular events with controversial results. In the present study, Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis was applied to obtain unconfounded estimates of the causal associations of genetically determined serum MUFAs with coronary heart disease (CHD), myocardial infarction (MI), cardioembolic stroke (CS), and ischemic stroke (IS).
Methods: Four MUFAs were studied (i.e., 10-heptadecenoate, myristoleic, oleic, and palmitoleic acid). Data from the largest genome-wide association studies on MUFAs, CHD, MI, and stroke were analyzed. Inverse variance weighted method (IVW), weighted median (WM)-based method, MR-Egger, as well as MR-pleiotropy residual sum and outlier were applied. To rule out the impact of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), the leave-one-out method was also performed.
Results: Genetically higher-serum 10-heptadecenoate levels did not affect the risk of CHD (IVW = Beta: −0.304, p = 0.185), MI (IVW = Beta: −0.505, p = 0.066), CS (IVW = Beta: −0.056, p = 0.945), and IS (IVW = Beta: −0.121, p = 0.767). Similarly, no significant associations were observed for myristoleic acid (CHD: IVW = Beta: 0.008; MI: IVW = Beta: 0.041; CS: IVW = Beta: 0.881; IS: IVW = Beta: 0.162), oleic acid (CHD: IVW = Beta: −0.2417; MI: IVW = Beta: −0.119; CS: IVW = Beta: 1.059; IS: IVW = Beta: 0.008491), and palmitoleic acid (CHD: IVW = Beta: −0.06957; MI: IVW = Beta: −0.01255; CS: IVW = Beta: 1.042; IS: IVW = Beta: −0.1862). A low likelihood of heterogeneity and pleiotropy was reported, and the observed associations were not driven by single SNPs.
Conclusions: In the present MR analysis, serum MUFA levels were not associated with the risk of CHD, MI, CS, and IS. Further research, evaluating more MUFAs, is required to elucidate the links between MUFAs and CVD to contribute to health policy decisions in reducing CVD risk.
Monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) are a subgroup of fatty acids containing a single double bond, with two forms of configuration: cis and trans (1). Major sources of exogenous MUFAs include vegetable oils, high-fat fruits (such as olives and avocado), red meat, milk products, and nuts (2). MUFAs are also endogenously synthesized in the liver and the adipose tissue by microsomal stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 (SCD1) from their saturated fatty acid–acetyl-coenzyme A precursors (3).
It is widely known that fatty acid metabolism and composition can be altered during diseases, resulting in beneficial (4, 5) or adverse events (6, 7). In this context, cardiovascular (CV) health may be affected by MUFAs through effects on various markers associated with CHD (8), including serum lipid and lipoprotein profile (9), vascular function markers (10), and postprandial vascular function (11). Indeed some sources of MUFA, such as plant oils, may decrease the risk of CV disease (CVD) in the general population (12). For example, supplemented palmitoleate beneficially influenced the lipid profile [i.e., decreased triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and increased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C)] as well as reduced the high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP) levels of adults with dyslipidemia (13). Furthermore, circulating palmitoleate levels positively correlated with insulin sensitivity (14).
A significant association between dietary MUFAs and CV risk has been suggested, but the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood yet. A possible explanation may be that endogenously synthesized MUFAs are the major substrate for hepatic triacylglycerol (TAG) synthesis (15), a CVD risk factor (16). Furthermore, serum MUFAs are associated with inflammation and particularly with serum CRP levels (17, 18). Consequently, serum MUFAs can lead to CVD via promoting the inflammation process (15).
The activity of SCD1 is enhanced in various cardiometabolic diseases, including diabetes, obesity, and atherosclerosis (19). The increased activity of SCD1 was reported to promote endogenous MUFA synthesis in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) (15). In these patients, the serum MUFA levels were positively related to TAG, CRP, and CKD progression and negatively related to HDL-C and LDL-C (15). Furthermore, MUFAs were a strong predictor of CVD incidence in CKD patients (15).
Overall, there is conflicting and limited evidence in relation to the links between serum MUFAs and CVD. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the causal associations of genetically determined serum MUFAs with coronary heart disease (CHD), myocardial infarction (MI), cardioembolic stroke (CS), and ischemic stroke (IS) by applying Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis on data from the largest genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on MUFAs.
MethodsStudy Design
A two-sample MR study design was used, in which summary statistics from different GWAS were analyzed for the exposures (serum MUFAs) and outcomes (CHD, MI, CS, and IS), to estimate the effects of exposure on outcome (20). Essentially, we applied methods to estimate the unbiased effect of genetic predictors of serum MUFAs to extensively genotyped case–control studies of CHD, MI, CS, and IS.
Genetic Predictors of Exposures
We retrieved summary data for the associations between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and four circulating MUFAs [i.e., 10-heptadecenoate (17:1), myristoleic acid (14:1; tetradecenoic), oleic acid (18:1; octadecenoic), and palmitoleic acid (16:1; hexadecenoic)] from the GWAS (including 7,824 adult samples of European ancestry) (Supplementary Table 1). Genotyping, quality control, and imputation procedures are described elsewhere (21). If a SNP was unavailable for the outcome GWAS summary statistics, we identified proxy SNPs with a minimum linkage disequilibrium (LD) r2 = 0.8. To minimize bias in effect estimates induced by the correlation between SNPs, we restricted our genetic instrument to independent SNPs not in LD (p = 0.0001). We refer to a set of SNPs that proxy serum MUFAs as “genetic instruments.”
Genetic Predictors of Outcomes
Genetic associations with CHD were obtained from the largest publicly available extensively genotyped CHD case (n ≤ 76,014)–control (n ≤ 264,785) study based on a meta-analysis, with the use of double genomic control correction, of the CARDIoGRAMplusC4D 1000 Genomes case(n = 60,801)–control (n = 123,504) study, the UK Biobank SOFT CAD study (cases n = 10,801, controls n = 137,371), and two small case (n = 4,120)–control (n = 3,910) studies from Germany and Greece (22). The CARDIoGRAMplusC4D 1000 Genomes participants are largely of European descent (77%) with detailed phenotyping of CHD, MI, or both based on medical records, clinical diagnosis, and procedures that indicate CHD (22, 23).
Genetic associations with different stroke types were obtained from the largest available extensively genotyped dataset, i.e., the METASTROKE, a collaboration of the International Stroke Genetics Consortium, including GWAS data on 34,217 ischemic cases and 404,630 controls of European ancestry from across 15 countries (24). The majority of the cases involved brain imaging confirmation. Additional phenotype descriptions and details of individual studies, including data collection and genetic data quality control procedures, are reported elsewhere (24).
Statistics
We combined the effect of instruments using inverse variance weighted (IVW) method. To address the potential effect of pleiotropic variants on the final effect estimate, we performed sensitivity analysis, including weighted median (WM) and MR-Egger. The sensitivity analysis was conducted using the leave-one-out method to identify instruments that might drive the MR results. The WM estimate provides correct estimates as long as SNPs accounting for ≥50% of the weight are valid instruments. Inverse variance is used to weight the variants and bootstrapping is applied to estimate the confidence intervals (CIs) (20). MR-Egger is able to make estimates even under the assumption that all SNPs are invalid instruments, as long as the assumption of instrument strength independent of direct effect (InSIDE) is satisfied (20). However, the InSIDE assumption cannot be easily verified. Average directional pleiotropy across genetic variants was assessed from the p-value of the intercept term from MR-Egger (20). Furthermore, causal estimates in MR-Egger are less precise than those obtained by using IVW MR (25). The analysis using MR-Egger has a lower false-positive rate but a higher false-negative rate than IVW, i.e., it has a lower statistical power (26).
Heterogeneity between individual genetic variant estimates was assessed by the use of the Q′ heterogeneity statistic (27). The Q′ statistic uses modified second-order weights that are a derivation of a Taylor series expansion, taking into account the uncertainty in both the numerator and the denominator of the instrumental variable ratio (27). Linkage disequilibrium (LD) clumping (0.0001) was applied on all SNPs with p-value less than GWAS level.
Sensitivity Analysis
MR-Egger and MR pleiotropy residual sum and outlier (MR-PRESSO) tests were used for sensitivity analysis (27). MR-Egger and MR-PRESSO may provide correct estimates as long as the instrument strength independent of direct effect assumption is satisfied (26). MR-Egger can be imprecise, particularly if the associations for SNPs on exposure are similar or the number of genetic instruments is low (27). A non-null MR-Egger intercept suggests that the IVW estimate is invalid. MR-Egger does not explicitly identify outliers. MR-PRESSO detects and, if necessary, corrects for potentially pleiotropic outliers (27). The MR-PRESSO framework detects effect estimates that are outliers and removes them from the analysis by regressing the variant–outcome associations on variant–exposure associations. A global heterogeneity test is then implemented to compare the observed distance between residual sums of squares of all variants to the regression line with the distance expected under the null hypothesis of no pleiotropy (28).
MR-robust adjusted profile score (RAPS) was also applied. This method can correct for pleiotropy using robust adjusted profile scores. We consider, as results, causal estimates that agreed in direction and magnitude across MR methods, passed nominal significance in IVW MR, and did not show evidence of bias from horizontal pleiotropy using heterogeneity tests. All analyses were performed using the R software (version 3.4.2 R Core Team, 2017).
Ethics
The present analysis uses published or publicly available summary data. No original data were collected for this study. Ethical approval for each of the studies included in the present analysis can be found in the original publications (including informed consent from each participant). The study conforms to the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki.
Results
The instrument associations for serum MUFA levels are shown in the Supplementary Table 1. The instruments have F-statistics higher than threshold, making significant bias from the use of weak instruments unlikely (29). The results, expressed as Beta-coefficient for serum MUFAs per one standard deviation (SD) increase in outcomes, are presented in Tables 1–4.
Results of the Mendelian Randomization (MR) analysis for 10-heptadecenoate (17:1) and cardiovascular events.
Exposures
MR
Heterogeneity
Pleiotropy
Method
beta
SE
p
Method
Q
p
Intercept
SE
p
Coronary heart disease
MR Egger
0.8635
1.306
0.5447
MR-Egger
2.963
0.558
−0.023
0.025
0.415
WM
−0.2906
0.2939
0.3228
IVW
−0.3047
0.23
0.1852
IVW
3.863
0.576
RAPS
−0.298
0.245
0.2239
Myocardial infarction
MR Egger
2.281
1.457
0.1925
MR-Egger
2.003
0.736
−0.054
0.028
0.124
WM
−0.2342
0.3345
0.4838
IVW
−0.505
0.2754
0.06677
IVW
5.774
0.362
RAPS
−0.544
0.304
0.07355
Cardioembolic stroke
MR Egger
−2.272
4.623
0.6488
MR-Egger
3.426
0.485
0.043
0.088
0.652
WM
−0.4173
1.073
0.6973
IVW
−0.05633
0.8168
0.945
IVW
3.725
0.596
RAPS
−0.1773
0.8609
0.8368
Ischemic stroke
MR Egger
1.04
2.317
0.6769
MR-Egger
1.266
0.865
−0.022
0.044
0.638
WM
−0.09585
0.5161
0.8527
IVW
−0.121
0.4098
0.7679
IVW
1.595
0.911
RAPS
−0.1232
0.4288
0.7738
WM, Weighted median; IVW, Inverse variance weighted; SE, standard error; beta, beta-coefficients; MR, Mendelian randomization; RAPS, Robust Adjusted Profile Score.
Results of the Mendelian Randomization (MR) analysis for Myristoleic acid (14:1) and cardiovascular events.
Exposures
MR
Heterogeneity
Pleiotropy
Method
beta
SE
p
Method
Q
p
Intercept
SE
p
Coronary heart disease
MR Egger
0.3032
0.8636
0.759
MR-Egger
1.623
0.446
−0.0074
0.021
0.755
WM
0.06446
0.319
0.8398
IVW
0.008949
0.2636
0.9729
IVW
1.742
0.623
RAPS
0.00909
0.2757
0.9737
Myocardial infarction
MR Egger
−0.2609
0.9332
0.8061
MR-Egger
1.369
0.526
0.0076
0.022
0.766
WM
0.03509
0.3512
0.9204
IVW
0.0411
0.2897
0.8872
IVW
1.475
0.692
RAPS
0.04163
0.3019
0.8903
Cardioembolic stroke
MR Egger
−1.429
3.887
0.7485
MR-Egger
2.145
0.346
0.054
0.089
0.602
WM
0.3764
1.205
0.7547
IVW
0.8811
0.942
0.3496
IVW
2.536
0.475
RAPS
0.902
1.001
0.3677
Ischemic stroke
MR Egger
0.3005
1.82
0.8841
MR-Egger
1.236
0.536
−0.0033
0.042
0.945
WM
−0.04136
0.5576
0.9409
IVW
0.1628
0.4678
0.7278
IVW
1.425
0.742
RAPS
0.1649
0.4878
0.7354
WM, Weighted median; IVW, Inverse variance weighted; SE, standard error; beta, beta-coefficients; MR, Mendelian randomization; RAPS, Robust Adjusted Profile Score.
Results of the Mendelian Randomization (MR) analysis for Oleic acid (18:1) and cardiovascular events.
Exposures
MR
Heterogeneity
Pleiotropy
Method
beta
SE
p
Method
Q
p
Intercept
SE
p
Coronary heart disease
MR Egger
−2.516
2.943
0.4828
MR-Egger
3.695
0.156
0.034
0.043
0.514
WM
−0.5437
0.5185
0.2944
IVW
−0.2417
0.5068
0.6334
IVW
4.856
0.189
RAPS
−0.3834
0.4266
0.3687
Myocardial infarction
MR Egger
−2.551
2.849
0.4651
MR-Egger
2.756
0.246
0.036
0.042
0.477
WM
−0.3194
0.5727
0.5771
IVW
−0.119
0.502
0.8125
IVW
3.856
0.286
RAPS
−0.2092
0.4717
0.6574
Cardioembolic stroke
MR Egger
−10.12
7.623
0.3155
MR-Egger
0.418
0.812
0.16
0.11
0.274
WM
1.591
1.757
0.365
IVW
1.059
1.378
0.4419
IVW
2.693
0.469
RAPS
1.088
1.464
0.4572
Ischemic stroke
MR Egger
−1.607
3.805
0.7139
MR-Egger
0.736
0.695
0.024
0.055
0.708
WM
0.06184
0.7951
0.938
IVW
0.008491
0.6867
0.9901
IVW
0.923
0.823
RAPS
0.008555
0.711
0.9904
WM, Weighted median; IVW, Inverse variance weighted; SE, standard error; beta, beta-coefficients; MR, Mendelian randomization; RAPS, Robust Adjusted Profile Score.
Results of the Mendelian Randomization (MR) analysis for Palmitoleic acid (16:1) and cardiovascular events.
Exposures
MR
Heterogeneity
Pleiotropy
Method
beta
SE
p
Method
Q
p
Intercept
SE
p
Coronary heart disease
MR Egger
0.6596
0.6251
0.402
MR-Egger
0.336
0.845
−0.022
0.017
0.331
WM
−0.1111
0.3084
0.7186
IVW
−0.06957
0.2514
0.782
IVW
1.956
0.586
RAPS
−0.07158
0.2659
0.7878
Myocardial infarction
MR Egger
0.5029
0.7292
0.5617
MR-Egger
0.485
0.786
−0.015
0.02
0.523
WM
0.07973
0.3459
0.8177
IVW
−0.01255
0.2845
0.9648
IVW
1.078
0.782
RAPS
−0.01271
0.2963
0.9658
Cardioembolic stroke
MR Egger
−5.925
4.205
0.2942
MR-Egger
1.163
0.559
0.17
0.098
0.230
WM
1.211
1.266
0.3385
IVW
1.042
1.16
0.3687
IVW
4.075
0.256
RAPS
1.191
1.073
0.2667
Ischemic stroke
MR Egger
−2.481
1.977
0.3362
MR-Egger
1.775
0.415
0.056
0.047
0.354
WM
−0.3666
0.6421
0.5681
IVW
−0.1862
0.5075
0.7137
IVW
3.265
0.326
RAPS
−0.1927
0.5236
0.7129
WM, Weighted median; IVW, Inverse variance weighted; SE, standard error; beta, beta-coefficients; MR, Mendelian randomization; RAPS, Robust Adjusted Profile Score.
Genetically higher-serum 10-heptadecenoate levels had no significant effect on the risk of CHD (IVW = Beta: −0.304, p = 0.185, Table 1), MI (IVW = Beta: −0.505, p = 0.066, Table 1), CS (IVW = Beta: −0.056, p = 0.945, Table 1), and IS (IVW = Beta: −0.121, p = 0.767, Table 1). Similar results were obtained for myristoleic acid (for CHD: IVW = Beta: 0.008, p = 0.972; for MI: IVW = Beta: 0.041, p = 0.887; for CS: IVW = Beta: 0.881, p = 0.349; for IS: IVW = Beta: 0.162, p = 0.727, Table 2), oleic acid (for CHD: IVW = Beta: −0.2417, p = 0.6334; for MI: IVW = Beta: −0.119, p = 0.8125; for CS: IVW = Beta: 1.059, p = 0.4419; for IS: IVW = Beta: 0.008491, p = 0.9901, Table 3), and palmitoleic acid (for CHD: IVW = Beta: −0.06957, p = 0.782; for MI: IVW = Beta: −0.01255, p = 0.9648; for CS: IVW = Beta: 1.042, p = 0.3687; for IS: IVW = Beta: −0.1862, p = 0.7137, Table 4).
Heterogeneity results and pleiotropy bias are also shown in Tables 1–4. Estimation based on both MR Egger and IVW was higher than 0.05, indicating low heterogeneity (all IVW p > 0.256, all MR Egger p > 0.156). Furthermore, MR-PRESSO analysis did not indicate any outliers for all estimates. The horizontal pleiotropy test, with very negligible Egger regression intercept, also showed a low likelihood of pleiotropy for all of our estimations (all p > 0.124). The results of the MR-RAPS were identical with the IVW estimates, highlighting again a low chance of pleiotropy. The leave-one-out method demonstrated that the associations were not driven by single SNPs.
Discussion
The present MR analysis showed that genetically higher-serum MUFA (10-heptadecenoate, myristoleic, oleic, and palmitoleic acids) levels did not affect the risk of CHD, MI, CS, and IS. These associations were not driven by single SNPs, and there was a low chance of heterogeneity and pleiotropy.
Heptadecanoic acid was inversely associated with the risk for MI in 385 women in a population-based cohort (OR = 0.74, 95% CI: 0.58–0.95); in a multivariate analysis, however, this link became non-significant (30). Furthermore, among 2,907 US adults followed up for 22 years, no significant associations were observed between heptadecanoic acid and CVD, CHD, or stroke (31). Similarly, heptadecanoic acid level was not related to the risk of total stroke, IS, or hemorrhagic stroke in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (51,529 men) and the Nurses' Health Study (121,700 women) (32). However, a previous meta-analysis (13 prospective studies; 7,680 CVD cases) showed a marginal inverse correlation between heptadecanoic acid and CVD events (relative risk = 0.82, 95% CI: 0.68–0.99) (33). Data on the associations of myristoleic acid with CVD are missing.
Plasma oleic acid was a predictor for CVD events (HR = 1.41; p = 0.008) among 6,568 participants of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (34). Furthermore, the multivariable-adjusted OR for IS related to a one-SD increment in serum oleic acid was 1.20 (95% CI: 1.01–1.43) in a nested prospective case–control study involving participants from the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study (35). In contrast, oleic acid was inversely associated with acute MI (OR = 0.42; p = 0.03) in a case–control study (n = 297) (36). Furthermore, there is evidence that oleic acid may act protectively against stroke (37). In this context, higher plasma oleic acid was related to 73% lower stroke incidence (95% CI: 10–92%; p = 0.03) among 1,245 participants from the Three-City Study followed up for a median of 5.25 years (38).
Palmitelaidic acid was related to a lower risk of CVD after adjusting for age, gender, and race in a cross-sectional study using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2000 and 2009–2010 (39). Similarly, palmitic acid was inversely associated with acute MI (OR = 0.58; p = 0.03) in a case–control study (n = 297) (36). In contrast, a high content of palmitoleic acid was suggested as a marker of increased CHD risk (40). In this context, in a prospective nested case–control study of 12,840 participants from the Circulatory Risk in Communities Study, the multivariate OR of coronary artery disease for the highest vs. the lowest quartiles of palmitoleic acid was 3.2 (95% CI: 1.7–6.1) (41). Furthermore, positive linear associations were observed between palmitoleic acid and IS [for plasma cholesterol ester fraction: HR = 1.86 (95% CI: 1.20–2.87); p = 0.003; for phospholipid fraction: HR = 1.52 (95% CI: 0.99–2.34); p = 0.005] in 3,870 participants from the Minneapolis field center of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study (35). Similarly, a previous meta-analysis (13 prospective studies; n = 7,680 CVD cases) found no association between trans-palmitoleic acid, CHD, and stroke (33). Trans-palmitoleic acid levels did not correlate with the risk of total stroke, IS, or hemorrhagic stroke in two large cohort studies [i.e., the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (51,529 men) and the Nurses' Health Study (121,700 women)] (32). Finally, in another meta-analysis including 32 observational studies of dietary fatty acids (512,420 participants) and 27 randomized clinical trials of fatty acid supplementation (105,085 participants), no associations were observed between fatty acids and coronary disease (42).
In conclusion, the present MR analysis showed that serum MUFA levels did not correlate with the risk of CHD, MI, CS, and IS. Further studies, investigating also other MUFAs, are needed to clarify the links between MUFAs, CHD, MI, CS, and IS. This research is clinically important for health policy decisions in reducing CVD risk.
Data Availability Statement
All datasets presented in this study are included in the article/Supplementary Material.
Author Contributions
All authors contributed to the design, interpretation, and writing of the paper.
Conflict of Interest
NK has given talks, attended conferences, and participated in trials sponsored by Astra Zeneca, Bausch Health, Boehringer Ingelheim, Elpen, Menarini, Mylan, NovoNordisk, Sanofi, and Servier. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Supplementary Material
The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2020.00123/full#supplementary-material
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