lipoprotein(a), an ldl variant, has been claimed to have a role in atherogenesis and therefore coronary artery disease (cad). however, its production and atherogenecity seems to vary among ethnic groups. in order to study the possible correlation between levels of lp(a) and cad in iranian patients who suffered myocardial infarction (mi), a case-control study was carried out on 120 mi patients a...

background and objectives: lipoprotein-a potentially represents a useful tool for risk stratification in cardiovascular accidents.  the aim of this study was to evaluate the atorvastatin effect on serum lipid profile & lipoprotein a. material & methods: in 2009, 405 patients with acute coronary syndrome randomly were divided into 2 groups, taking 20 & 40 mg atorvastatin daily for 3...

background: atrial fibrillation (af) is prevalent among cardiac patients; and as the risk of thromboembolism is high in this arrhythmia, discrimination of the effective risk factors in producing left atrial (la) thrombosis is clinically important. the molecular structure of lipoprotein(a) [lp(a)] is very similar to plasminogen , so it can be hypothesized that the high level of lp(a) is a compro...

lipoprotein (a) [lp (a) is formed by assembly of ldl-particles and the carbohydrate rich protein, apolipoprotein (a) [apo (a)]. elevated plasma lp (a) levels are an independent predictor of the development of premature coronary artery disease (cad), but is not clear whether the apo (a) isoform plays on additional and independent role or not. to investigate the possible effect of apo (a) isoform...

objective: to determine the level of lipoprotein (a) in diabetic patients comparing to control group. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on the patients referred to endocrinology clinic of bu ali-sina hospital in 2009. 180 subjects including 90 diabetic and 90 healthy subjects as control group enrolled in this study. all diabetic patients had glycemic control. we me...

background: in addition to the known risk factors of cardiovascular diseases, many studies reported that there are some new risk factors such as hemocystein, lipoprotein (a), fibrinogen and factor vп affecting the morbidity and increasing the risk of disease. the current study was designed to evaluate such risk factors in relation to those previously established in a case-control study design. ...

conclusions rs9364559 in the lpa gene may contribute to the risk of cad in the han chinese population; haplotypes which contain rs9346816-g were all associated with an increased risk of cad in this study. background mutations in the solute carrier family 22 member 3 (slc22a3), lipoprotein (a)-like 2 (lpal2), and the lipoprotein (a) (lpa) gene cluster, which encodes apolipoprotein (a) [apo (a)] ...

In this paper we prove that the shifts of ,1 , ..., ,n are Lp -stable if and only if, for any ! # R, the sequences (, k(!+2;?)); # Z s (k=1, ..., n) are linearly independent, where , denotes the Fourier transform of ,. This extends the previous results of Jia and Micchelli on a characterization of Lp -stability (1 p ) of the shifts of a finite number of compactly supported functions to the case...

background: studies demonstrated controversial results on subclinical hypothyroidism (sch) regarding lipid profile alteration with or without levothyroxine treatment. the purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of levothyroxine on serum lipids in sch. materials and methods: one hundred patients with sch referred to taleghani hospital in kermanshah were recruited and randomly assigne...