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ReviewNature reviews. Cardiology2024

Oxidized phospholipids in cardiovascular disease.

Sotirios Tsimikas, Joseph L Witztum

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Review in Nature reviews. Cardiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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76citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
33.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 105 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Oxidized Phospholipids and Calcific Aortic Valvular Disease.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sotirios TsimikasDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. stsimikas@health.ucsd.edu.
Joseph L WitztumDivision of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5195-6614
UC San Diego Health System · USUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

Tissue-specific roles of FXR in CVD and NASHP01HL147835 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI EVANS, RONALD M · 2020 to 2024
$12.2M
Translating Lp(a) biology to clinical applicationsR01HL159156 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SOTIRIOS TSIMIKAS · 2022 to 2026
$3.3M
Aspirin, Lp(a) and Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular EventsR01HL170224 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SOTIRIOS TSIMIKAS · 2023 to 2026
$3.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL147835NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL159156NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL170224
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prolonged or excessive exposure to oxidized phospholipids (OxPLs) generates chronic inflammation. OxPLs are present in atherosclerotic lesions and can be detected in plasma on apolipoprotein B (apoB)-containing lipoproteins. When initially conceptualized, OxPL-apoB measurement in plasma was expected to reflect the concentration of minimally oxidized LDL, but, surprisingly, it correlated more strongly with plasma lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) levels. Indeed, experimental and clinical studies show that Lp(a) particles carry the largest fraction of OxPLs among apoB-containing lipoproteins. Plasma OxPL-apoB levels provide diagnostic information on the presence and extent of atherosclerosis and improve the prognostication of peripheral artery disease and first and recurrent myocardial infarction and stroke. The addition of OxPL-apoB measurements to traditional cardiovascular risk factors improves risk reclassification, particularly in patients in intermediate risk categories, for whom improving decision-making is most impactful. Moreover, plasma OxPL-apoB levels predict cardiovascular events with similar or greater accuracy than plasma Lp(a) levels, probably because this measurement reflects both the genetics of elevated Lp(a) levels and the generalized or localized oxidation that modifies apoB-containing lipoproteins and leads to inflammation. Plasma OxPL-apoB levels are reduced by Lp(a)-lowering therapy with antisense oligonucleotides and by lipoprotein apheresis, niacin therapy and bariatric surgery. In this Review, we discuss the role of role OxPLs in the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and Lp(a) atherogenicity, and the use of OxPL-apoB measurement for improving prognosis, risk reclassification and therapeutic interventions.

Indexed as

AtherosclerosisCardiovascular DiseasesApolipoproteins BHumansInflammationLipoprotein(a)PhospholipidsApolipoproteins BLipoprotein(a)Phospholipids

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PMID37848630
OpenAlexW4387700787

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