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Apolipoprotein E polymorphism modulates the association between obesity and dyslipidemias during young adulthood: The Bogalusa Heart Study.
Metabolism: clinical and experimental - 1 Jun 2001
Srinivasan S R, Ehnholm C, Elkasabany A, Berenson G S
Abstract excerpt
To elucidate to what extent apolipoprotein (apo) E polymorphism modulates obesity-induced dyslipidemias during young adulthood, longitudinal data on 759 individuals (72% white/28% black; initial and follow-up mean age, 25.9 and 32.7 years) were examined. Among both races and the total sample, the apo E2 group (with E2/2 or E2/3 phenotype) had significantly lower and the apo E4 (with E4/4 or E3/4 phenotype) group...
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