Plasma lipid composition and risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

Summary, in English

We tested whether characteristic changes of the plasma lipidome in individuals with comparable total lipids level associate with future cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcome and whether 23 validated gene variants associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) affect CVD associated lipid species.

• Author: Celine Fernandez; Marianne Sandin; Julio L Sampaio; Peter Almgren; Krzysztof Narkiewicz; Michal Hoffmann; Thomas Hedner; Björn Wahlstrand; Kai Simons; Andrej Shevchenko; Peter James; Olle Melander
• Department/s: Cardiovascular Research - Hypertension; Department of Immunotechnology; Translational Muscle Research; EXODIAB: Excellence of Diabetes Research in Sweden; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publishing year: 2013
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: PLoS ONE
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 8
• Full text: - 995 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23967253?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071846
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Topic: Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems; Endocrinology and Diabetes
• Status: Published
• Research group: Cardiovascular Research - Hypertension; Genomics, Diabetes and Endocrinology
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1932-6203