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ArticleLipids in health and disease2014

Atorvastatin combined with poly-unsaturated fatty acid confers better improvement of dyslipidemia and endothelium function.

Xianbing Song, Hongsheng Liu, Xiaotian Wang, Zhenhua Li, Congwu Huang

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Article in Lipids in health and disease, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Xianbing Song
Hongsheng Liu
Xiaotian Wang
Zhenhua LiDepartment of Cardiology, Dongying People's Hospital, Shandong 257000, China. lzh186@yeah.net.
Congwu Huang
Anhui Medical University · CNFirst Affiliated Hospital of Chinese PLA General Hospital · CNSecond Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAtorvastatin and poly-unsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) are beneficial for lipid-modification, whether atorvastatin plus PUFA could confer better improvement on dyslipidemia and endothelium function is unknown.

methodsDyslipidemia model of 40 rabbits were produced with atherogenic diet, and thereafter saline, atorvastatin, PUFA, or atorvastatin plus PUFA were prescribed for 1 week. Ten rabbits given normal diet served as the sham group. Parameters of interest including lipid profiles, endothelium function (nitric oxide, NO) and activation (solution vascular-cellular adhesion molecule, (sVCAM) and intracellular adhesion molecule, (sICAM)), markers of inflammation (C-reactive protein, CRP) and oxidation (malondialdehyde, MDA) were compared among groups.

resultsThere was no significant difference of parameters among groups at the initial. With 1 week of atherogenic diet administration, serum levels of lipid profiles, sVCAM and sICAM, CRP and MDA were significantly increased, accompanying with profound NO reduction, as compared to the sham group. After 1 week of medical intervention, as compared to the control group (saline administration), dyslipidemia and endothelium function were modestly improved with either atorvastatin or PUFA therapy. Nevertheless, these efficacies were further and significantly enhanced with combined therapy when compared to the control group (p<0.005), suggesting that there was synergistic effects of atorvastatin and PUFA co-therapy in rabbits with dyslipidemia.

conclusionAtorvastatin plus PUFA therapy could immediately contribute to better improvement of lipid-modification and endothelium function in rabbits with dyslipidemia.

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AnimalsAnticholesteremic AgentsAtorvastatinDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalDrug Therapy, CombinationDyslipidemiasEndothelium, VascularFatty Acids, UnsaturatedHeptanoic AcidsMaleNitric OxidePyrrolesRabbitsAnticholesteremic AgentsAtorvastatinFatty Acids, UnsaturatedHeptanoic AcidsNitric OxidePyrroles

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