†These authors contributed equally.
Academic Editors: Brian Tomlinson and Takatoshi Kasai
Background: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a common
cardiovascular disease that has a high mortality. Pyroptosis is a programmed cell
death mediated by inflammasome. It remains to be clarified on the expression
pattern and risk predictive role of pyroptosis-related genes in AMI.
Methods: The gene expression data were extracted from the Gene Expression
Omnibus (GEO), and pyroptosis-related genes were obtained from published
articles. Pyroptosis-related differential expressed genes were selected between
normal and AMI samples and then we explored their immune infiltration level using
CIBERSORT. Univariate Cox and LASSO regression were applied to establish a
classifier based on pyroptosis-related genes. ROC analysis was utilized to
evaluate the classifier. Results: In this study, we obtained 20
pyroptosis-related genes which showed differential expression in AMI and normal
samples. Among the differential expressed genes, GZMB was significantly
positively associated with activated NK cells (R = 0.71, p