ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020
Association between Very Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (VLDL-C) and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Postmenopausal Women Without Overt Cardiovascular Disease and on LDL-C Target Levels.
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- Association of Changes in Relevant Indicators With Cardiovascular Disease and Osteoporosis in Perimenopausal and Postmenopausal Women.Food science & nutrition · 2024Article
- A Narrative Review of the Role of Blood Biomarkers in the Risk Prediction of Cardiovascular Diseases.Cureus · 2024Review
- Alternations of Lipoprotein Profiles in the Plasma as Biomarkers of Huntington's Disease.Cells · 2023Article
- Impaired functional exercise capacity and greater cardiovascular response to the 6-min walk test in congenital generalized lipodystrophy.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2022Article
- Emerging Evidence of Pathological Roles of Very-Low-Density Lipoprotein (VLDL).International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Prevalence, patterns and predictors of metabolic abnormalities in Nigerian hypertensives with hypertriglyceridemic waist phenotype: A cross sectional study.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Association between Non-HDL-C/HDL-C Ratio and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Post-Menopausal Women.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Carotid Atherosclerosis, Ultrasound and Lipoproteins.Biomedicines · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundatherosclerotic process inexorably advances in patients reaching low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) targets. An attractive hypothesis is that lipoprotein particles (very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), intermediate-density lipoprotein (IDL)), could contribute to residual risk. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and different lipoprotein subfractions in a cohort of healthy postmenopausal women.
methods75 postmenopausal women, at LDL-C target levels without overt cardiovascular disease, underwent biochemical analyses (including subfraction assay of plasma lipoproteins) and carotid ultrasound examination.
resultsa statistically significant correlation between VLDL and carotid IMT (
conclusionsin this cohort of postmenopausal women, VLDL-C was significantly associated to carotid IMT, independent of main cardiovascular risk factors. These findings pave the way for targeting circulating concentrations of VLDL-C to reduce cardiovascular events in patients with target LDL-C levels.
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