Article
Biomarkers of cholesterol homeostasis in a clinical laboratory database sample comprising 667,718 patients.
Journal of clinical lipidology - 1 Jan 2000
Dayspring Thomas D, Varvel Stephen A, Ghaedi Leila, Thiselton Dawn L, Bruton James, McConnell Joseph P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Circulating noncholesterol sterols/stanols (NCS) are used in clinical lipidology as surrogate measures of cholesterol synthesis and absorption, where they can be valuable tools in assessing cholesterol metabolism and personalizing therapies in patients with dyslipidemia. OBJECTIVES: To describe the distributions of plasma NCS concentrations and inter-NCS correlations in a large cohort of American...
Topics
- Aging
- Apolipoproteins E
- Biomarkers
- Cholestanol
- Databases, Factual
- Dyslipidemias
- Female
- Genotype
- Homeostasis
- Humans
- Laboratories
