Lack of association between carotid intima-media thickness and PAF-acetylhydrolase mass and activity in patients with primary hyperlipidemia
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Kiortsis, D. N.
Tsouli, S.
Lourida, E. S.
Xydis, V.
Argyropoulou, M. I.
Elisaf, M.
Tselepis, A. D.
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peer reviewed
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Angiology
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Carotid intima media thickness (IMT), represents an important clinical indicator of early atherosclerosis. Human plasma platelet-activating factor acety1hydrolase (PAF-AH) is an enzyme primarily associated with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) while a small proportion of enzymatic activity is also associated with high-density lipoprotein (HDL). Plasma paraoxonase 1 (PON 1) is an esterase exclusively associated with HDL. The authors investigated the possible relationship between carotid IMT and the plasma levels of PAF-AH mass and activity as well as the PON 1 activity in hyperlipiclemic patients. One hundred unrelated patients with primary hyperlipidemia and 67 age- and sex-matched normolipidemic apparently healthy volunteers participated in the study. The PAF-AH activity in total plasma and in HDL-rich plasma (HDL-PAF-AH activity), the plasma PAF-AH mass, and the serum PON I activities toward paraoxon and phenyl acetate were determined. The plasma PAF-AH mass and activity were higher in hyperlipidemic patients compared to controls, whereas the HDL-PAF-AH activity, as well as the serum PON I activities were not significantly different between the studied groups. When hyperlipidemic patients were divided into 2 subgroups according to their IMT values (IMT < 0.7 mm and IMT >= 0.7 mm) patients with IMT >= 0.7 mm had significantly higher age, and serum triglycericle concentrations, whereas no difference was found in the plasma PAF-AH mass and activity as well as in the HDL-PAF-AH activity between the 2 studied subgroups. The same phenomenon was observed for serum PON1 activities. In a multivariate analysis, only the age was significantly correlated with IMT values (p < 0.05). Neither the total plasma PAF-AH mass and activity nor the HDL-PAF-AH activity are associated with early carotid atherosclerosis.
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platelet-activating-factor, coronary-heart-disease, cardiovascular risk-factors, arterial-wall thickness, low-density-lipoprotein, c-reactive protein, atherosclerosis risk, phospholipase a(2), insulin-resistance, diabetes-mellitus
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<Go to ISI>://000230801100013
http://ang.sagepub.com/content/56/4/451.full.pdf
http://ang.sagepub.com/content/56/4/451.full.pdf
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