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ArticleJournal of lipid research2010

The associations of cholesterol metabolism and plasma plant sterols with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.

Guenther Silbernagel, Guenter Fauler, Michael M Hoffmann, Dieter Lütjohann, Bernhard R Winkelmann, Bernhard O Boehm, Winfried März

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Article in Journal of lipid research, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Guenther SilbernagelDivision of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany.
Guenter Fauler
Michael M Hoffmann
Dieter Lütjohann
Bernhard R Winkelmann
Bernhard O Boehm
Winfried März
Medical University of Graz · ATHeidelberg University · DEUniversität Ulm · DEUniversity Medical Center Freiburg · DEUniversity of Bonn · DEUniversity of Tübingen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Moderately elevated levels of plasma plant sterols have been suspected to be causally involved in atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to investigate whether plant sterols and other markers of sterol metabolism predicted all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in participants of the Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular health (LURIC) study. A total of 1,257 individuals who did not use statins and at baseline had a mean (+/- SD) age of 62.8 (+/- 11.0) years were included in the present analysis. Lathosterol, cholestanol, campesterol, and sitosterol were measured to estimate cholesterol synthesis and absorption. The mean (+/- SD) time of the follow-up for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality was 7.32 (+/- 2.3) years. All-cause (P = 0.001) and cardiovascular (P = 0.006) mortality were decreased in the highest versus the lowest lathosterol to cholesterol tertile. In contrast, subjects in the third cholestanol to cholesterol tertile had increased all-cause (P < 0.001) and cardiovascular mortality (P = 0.010) compared with individuals in the first tertile. The third campesterol to cholesterol tertile was associated with increased all-cause mortality (P = 0.025). Sitosterol to cholesterol tertiles were not significantly related to all-cause or cardiovascular mortality. The data suggest that high absorption and low synthesis of cholesterol predict increased all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in LURIC participants.

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AbsorptionCardiovascular DiseasesCholestanolCholesterolHumansMaleMiddle AgedPhytosterolsPrognosisRiskSitosterolscampesterolCholestanolCholesterolgamma-sitosterollathosterolPhytosterolsSitosterols

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PMID20228406
PMCPMC2903788
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