We have carried out a cross-sectional multivariate analysis of serum and lipoprotein lipid levels in white persons from an industrial population. Very low density lipoprotein triglyceride level was independent of ethanol consumption but increased with adiposity and cigarette smoking and decreased with coffee-tea drinking. Concomitant age variation in indices of adiposity accounted for only a sm...

background: there is evidence that cd36 promotes foam cell formation through internalizing oxidized ldl (ox-ldl) into macrophages therefore, it plays a key role in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. in addition, cd36 expression seems to be mediated by nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (ppar-γ). the aim of the present study was to evaluate and compare the effect of ...