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A 32-year-old female patient and her sister show high levels of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in regular health checkups, since female patient was 11 years old. The patient's serum...
Although statins have demonstrated consistent and strong effects on cardiovascular prevention, non-statin drugs have failed to show additional clinical benefit. Consequently, statins are currently recommended as first-line therapy in dyslipidemia....
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine the associations of cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) rs6499861 and rs12708980 with high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) considering obesity and family history...
Recent clinical trials and meta-analyses have indicated that high-intensive statin treatment lowers low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and reduces the risk of nonfatal cardiovascular (CV) events compared with moderate-intensity statin...
Ischemic stroke is a heterogeneous disease caused by different pathogenic mechanisms, of which small artery and large artery stroke are the most common. Although the identification of the genes...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) plays a key role in the reverse cholesterol transport pathway. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of CETP...
Several parameters and risk factors were compared between Korean male myocardial infarction (MI) patients (n = 10) and angina pectoris (AP) patients (n = 17) to search unique biomarkers for...