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The predictive role of atherogenic dyslipidemia in subjects with non-coronary atherosclerosis.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 Aug 2009
Berneis Kaspar, Rizzo Manfredi, Spinas Giatgen A, Di Lorenzo Gabriele, Di Fede Gaetana, Pepe Ilenia, Pernice Vincenzo, Rini Giovam Battista
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BACKGROUND: Recent findings have suggested that subjects with non-coronary atherosclerosis may show elevated prevalence of atherogenic dyslipidemia, including higher triglyceride levels, reduced HDL-cholesterol concentrations and increased levels of small, dense low-density lipoproteins (LDL). These three lipid abnormalities constitute the so-called "atherogenic-lipoprotein-phenotype" (ALP) but its predictive...
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