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ReviewArteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology2018

From High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol to Measurements of Function: Prospects for the Development of Tests for High-Density Lipoprotein Functionality in Cardiovascular Disease.

Frank M Sacks, Majken K Jensen

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Review in Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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52citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
14.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Frank M SacksFrom the Departments of Nutrition and Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. fsacks@hsph.harvard.edu.
Majken K JensenFrom the Departments of Nutrition and Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Harvard University · US

Funding

Dietary Fat and HDL MetabolismR01HL095964 · NHLBI · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI SACKS, FRANK M · 2010 to 2014
$3.3M
HDL Proteins and Coronary Heart DiseaseR01HL123917 · NHLBI · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI SACKS, FRANK M · 2014 to 2017
$3.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL095964NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL123917
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The evidence is strong that biological functions contained in high-density lipoproteins (HDL) are antiatherogenic. These functions may track with HDL cholesterol or apolipoprotein A1 concentration to explain the strongly inverse risk curve for cardiovascular disease. Moreover, there are harmful as well as protective HDL subspecies in regard to cardiovascular disease, which could be responsible for paradoxical responses to HDL-directed treatments. Recent metabolic studies show that apolipoprotein A1-containing HDL is secreted into the circulation as mostly spherical cholesterol ester-rich lipoproteins that span the HDL size range. Most of the flux of apolipoprotein A1 HDL into and out of the circulation occurs in these spherical cholesterol-replete particles. Discoidal cholesterol-poor HDL comprises a minority of HDL secretion. We propose that much cholesterol in reverse cholesterol transport enters and exits medium and large size HDL without changing a size category, and its flux may be estimated provisionally from holoparticle clearance of cholesterol ester-rich HDL. An accurate framework for metabolism of HDL is essential to finding steady-state biomarkers that reflect HDL function in vivo. Whereas cholesterol efflux from cells to mainly discoidal HDL, mediated by ABCA1 (ATP-binding cassette transporter ABCA1), predicts cardiovascular disease, cholesterol transfers to spherical HDL also can be measured and may be relevant to protection against atherosclerosis. We propose several investigative paths on which human HDL biology may be investigated leading to convenient biomarkers of HDL quality and function having potential not only to improve risk prediction but also to more accurately target drug treatments.

Indexed as

AnimalsApolipoprotein A-IATP Binding Cassette Transporter 1Biological TransportBiomarkersCardiovascular DiseasesCholesterol, HDLDyslipidemiasHumansPredictive Value of TestsPrognosisRisk FactorsABCA1 protein, humanAPOA1 protein, humanApolipoprotein A-IATP Binding Cassette Transporter 1BiomarkersCholesterol, HDLapolipoprotein A-Iatherosclerosisbiomarkerscholesterol, HDLlipoproteins

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PMID29371248
PMCPMC5823773
OpenAlexW2784780221

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