Abstract:Objective To analyze the correlation of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and bilirubin with coronary atherosclerotic heart disease.Methods A total of 180 patients with coronary atherosclerotic heart disease admitted to our hospital from April 2019 to October 2019 and diagnosed via coronary angiography were retrospectively enrolled as the observation group, and the severity of coronary stenosis was quantified using Gensini score. Another 92 patients without obvious abnormality in coronary angiography during the same period were selected as the control group. The observation group was further divided into low-risk group (Gensini score ≤ 21), moderate-risk group (21 < Gensini score ≤ 51) and high-risk group (Gensini score > 51), with 60 cases in each subgroup. The levels of lymphocytes (Lym), neutrophils (NEU), NLR, monocytes (MONO), mean platelet volume (MPV), and platelet distribution width (PDW) in the peripheral blood as well as serum bilirubin level were compared among the groups.Results The levels of NEU, NLR, and PDW were higher but those of Lym, total bilirubin (TB)(P < 0.05)., direct bilirubin (DB) and indirect bilirubin (IB) were lower in the observation group compared with the control group (P < 0.05). However, there was no difference in levels of MONO and MPV between the two groups (P < 0.05). The Gensini score was negatively correlated with the level of Lym (r = -0.249) (P < 0.05), but was positively correlated with levels of NEU (r = 0.416), NLR (r = 0.342) and PDW (r = 0.292) (P < 0.05). The levels of TB (r = -0.082), DB (r = -0.097) and IB (r = -0.084) were not correlated with the Gensini score (P > 0.05). The Lym, NEU, NLR and PDW levels were significantly different among the low-risk group, moderate-risk group and high-risk group (P < 0.05), while MONO, MPV, TB, DB and IB levels were not different among the subgroups (P > 0.05). The specificity, sensitivity and area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of NLR in predicting coronary atherosclerotic heart disease were 87% (95% CI: 0.779, 0.928), 53.9% (95% CI: 0.463, 0.613) and 0.719 (95% CI: 0.660, 0.778), respectively (P < 0.05). PDW showed a specificity of 69.6% (95% CI: 0.590, 0.785), a sensitivity of 50.6% (95% CI: 0.430, 0.580) and an area under the ROC curve of 0.607 (95% CI: 0.535, 0.679) for predicting coronary atherosclerotic heart disease (P < 0.05). In addition, TB had a specificity of 77.2% (95% CI: 0.703, 0.830), a sensitivity of 43.9% (95% CI: 0.337, 0.546), and an area under the ROC curve of 0.611 (95% CI: 0.543, 0.678) for predicting coronary atherosclerotic heart disease (P < 0.05).Conclusions NLR, PDW and serum bilirubin levels are of certain value in the diagnosis of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease. Besides, NLR and PDW independently predict the severity of coronary stenosis determined via coronary angiography.