AIMS The major aim of this study is to examine the role of alterations in lipid profile in women developing breast cancer. This study was carried out between May 2009 and December 2010. BACKGROUND The relationship between lipids and breast cancer is undistinguished. Until now, conflicting results have been reported on the association between lipids and risk of breast cancer development in wom...

The prevalence of vascular disease among 154 diabetic patients was analysed in relation to the serum concentrations of individual lipoproteins. Overal the presence of vascular disease (59 cases) was positively associated with serum cholesterol and low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol but negatively associated with high-density-lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. The negative relation between HDL and ...

BACKGROUND Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is the principal target of lipid-lowering therapy, but recent evidence has suggested more appropriate targets. We compared the relationships of on-treatment levels of LDL cholesterol, non-high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and apolipoprotein B, as well as ratios of total/HDL cholesterol, LDL/HDL cholesterol, and apolipoprotein B/A-I,...

1833 Elevated levels of circulating high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) have long been thought to be associated with reduced coronary artery disease (CAD) risk. This concept has led to the HDL hypothesis: increasing HDL-C would be a key addendum in the prevention of CAD, in addition to reducing circulating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels. In theory, increasing HDL-C should i...

The serum lipid profile of a cohort of Hong Kong Chinese subjects living in the community (160 men, 154 women, mean age 70.2 +/- 11.4 years) was examined to determine the influence of age, sex, indices of obesity, drugs, smoking, alcohol intake, and presence of diabetes mellitus on serum lipid, lipoprotein, and apolipoprotein concentrations. A high waist/hip ratio (an index of central obesity) ...

1.1. Lipoprotein abnormalities in atherosclerosis, the role of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) The inverse relationship between plasma levels of HDL and coronary heart disease (CHD) has been demonstrated in a number of observational epidemiological studies, such as Framingham Heart Study, and Prospective Cardiovascular Münster Study (PROCAM), as well as in several intervention studies, for examp...

diabetes mellitus is a common endocrine disorder. anti-diabetic agents from natural and synthetic sources are available for the treatment of this disease. berberis integerrima is a medicinal shrub used in conventional therapy for a number of diseases. the aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of aqueous extract of berberis integerrima root (aebi) on some physiological paramete...

Background: To investigate the levels and clinical significance of serum homocysteine (Hcy), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), visceral adipose tissue-derived serine protease inhibitor (vaspin), fat-specific adipokine (visfatin) in elderly patients with different types coronary heart disease (CHD).

We assessed lipid and lipoprotein levels in 100 women taking low-dose COCs and a control group of 100 non-users attending the family planning centre Basra Maternity and Child Hospital, Iraq. Venous blood was collected after 12-14 hours fasting, and serum triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and very ...