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SUBMITTER: Pullinger CR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8174380 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pullinger Clive R CR O'Connor Patricia M PM Naya-Vigne Josefina M JM Kunitake Steven T ST Movsesyan Irina I Frost Philip H PH Malloy Mary J MJ Kane John P JP
Journal of the American Heart Association 20210317 7
Background We previously showed that levels of prebeta-1 high-density lipoprotein (HDL), the principal acceptor of cholesterol effluxed from cells, including artery wall macrophages, are positively associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) and myocardial infarction (MI) risk. Methods and Results In a multiethnic follow-up cohort of 1249 individuals from University of California-San Francisco clinics, we determined the degree to which prebeta-1 HDL levels, both absolute and percentage of apoli ...[more]