Publication date: Jul 23, 2025

Understanding the distribution and variation in NMR-based inflammatory markers is crucial to the evaluation of their clinical utility in disease prognosis and diagnosis. We applied high-resolution H NMR spectroscopy of blood plasma and serum to measure the acute phase reactive glycoprotein signals (GlycA and GlycB) and the subregions of the lipoprotein-based Supramolecular Phospholipid Composite signals (SPC, SPC, and SPC) in a large multicohort population study. A total of 5702 samples were studied to determine the signal variations in a range of chronic and acute inflammatory conditions. We found that while GlycA and GlycB were increased in inflammation, the SPC regions behaved independently of Glyc signals, with SPC and SPC being reduced in chronic inflammation in comparison to healthy controls (p-value SPC = 2. 9 cD7 10, p-value SPC = 2. 2 cD7 10) and SPC (p-value = 0. 29) being unchanged. SPC was decreased in acute inflammation, indicating a link to the immune response (p-value = 2. 5 cD7 10). These findings confirm the independent biological relevance of all three SPC subregions and contraindicate the use of aggregate SPC values as general inflammatory markers.

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