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A spectrum of PCSK9 alleles contributes to plasma levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.

scientific article

A truncated species of apolipoprotein B, B-83, associated with hypobetalipoproteinemia.

scientific article

Abnormal cholesterol distribution among lipoprotein fractions in normolipidemic patients with mild NIDDM

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

Abnormal metabolism of free fatty acids in hypertriglyceridaemic men: apparent insulin resistance of adipose tissue

scientific article published on April 1, 1998

Abnormalities in metabolism of low density lipoproteins associated with coronary heart disease.

scientific article

Activities of lipoprotein lipase and hepatic triglyceride lipase in postheparin plasma of patients with low concentrations of HDL cholesterol

scientific article published on 01 August 1993

Addition of angiotensin receptor blockade or mineralocorticoid antagonism to maximal angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition in diabetic nephropathy

scientific article

Adipokines, body fatness, and insulin resistance among survivors of childhood leukemia

scientific article

Adiponectin as an Independent Predictor of the Presence and Degree of Hepatic Steatosis in the Dallas Heart Study

scientific article published on March 21, 2012

Adipose tissue mass and location affect circulating adiponectin levels

scientific article published on July 22, 2011

African Americans and Caucasians have a similar prevalence of coronary calcium in the Dallas Heart Study

scientific article

An Analysis of Individual Body Fat Depots and Risk of Developing Cancer: Insights From the Dallas Heart Study

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Association between a specific apolipoprotein B mutation and familial defective apolipoprotein B-100

scientific article

Association of multiple adiposity exposures and cardiorespiratory fitness with all-cause mortality in men: the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study

scientific article published on 05 May 2014

Association of triglyceride-to-high density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio to cardiorespiratory fitness in men.

scientific article published on 17 September 2016

Association of urinary sodium-to-potassium ratio with obesity in a multiethnic cohort

scientific article published on 19 February 2014

Associations of visceral and abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue with markers of cardiac and metabolic risk in obese adults

scientific article published on May 19, 2013

Atherogenic low density lipoprotein phenotype in long-term survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

scientific article published on September 13, 2012

Bimodal distribution of cholesteryl ester transfer protein activities in normotriglyceridemic men with low HDL cholesterol concentrations

scientific article published on 01 April 1995

Body Size Misperception: A Novel Determinant in the Obesity Epidemic

scientific article published on October 11, 2010

Body fat distribution and incident cardiovascular disease in obese adults

scientific article published on May 2015

Body mass index and hepatic lipase gene (LIPC) polymorphism jointly influence postheparin plasma hepatic lipase activity

scientific article published on 01 May 1998

Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Metabolic Risk

scientific article published on January 3, 2012

Cardiovascular outcomes for obesity and metabolic syndrome

scientific article

Causes of high blood cholesterol

scientific article

Chronic kidney disease and statin eligibility

scientific article published on 31 October 2020

Coinheritance of two mild defects in low density lipoprotein receptor function produces severe hypercholesterolemia

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

Combination of fenofibrate plus low-dose nicotinic acid added to statin treatment in type 2 diabetes: An open-label, crossover study

scientific article published on September 2006

Comparison of apolipoprotein B to cholesterol in low density lipoproteins of patients with coronary heart disease

scientific article published on 01 June 1984

Comparison of lovastatin and gemfibrozil in normolipidemic patients with hypoalphalipoproteinemia

scientific article published in December 1989

Comparison of pravastatin with crystalline nicotinic acid monotherapy in treatment of combined hyperlipidemia

scientific article published on 01 May 1997

Comparison of visceral fat mass measurement by dual-X-ray absorptiometry and magnetic resonance imaging in a multiethnic cohort: the Dallas Heart Study

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Comparisons of Apolipoprotein B Levels Estimated by Immunoassay, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Vertical Auto Profile, and Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Subjects With Hypertriglyceridemia (SAFARI Trial)

scientific article published on May 10, 2011

Concentrations of apolipoprotein A-I-containing particles in patients with hypoalphalipoproteinemia

scientific article published on 01 April 1994

Coronary and peripheral artery plaques: do differences in plaque characteristics translate to differences in lipid management?

scientific article published on 30 May 2020

Correlation of non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol with apolipoprotein B during simvastatin + fenofibrate therapy in patients with combined hyperlipidemia (a subanalysis of the SAFARI trial).

scientific article published in August 2009

Current trends in non-HDL cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels in adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Determinants of plasma HDL-cholesterol in hypertriglyceridemic patients. Role of cholesterol-ester transfer protein and lecithin cholesteryl acyl transferase

scientific article published on 01 January 1997

Does measurement of apolipoprotein B have a place in cholesterol management?

scientific article published on September 1990

Dysfunctional Adiposity and the Risk of Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes in Obese Adults

scientific article published on September 19, 2012

Effect of Colesevelam Hydrochloride on Glycemia and Insulin Sensitivity in Men With the Metabolic Syndrome

scientific article published on October 15, 2011

Effect of Statins on Metabolism of Apo-B–Containing Lipoproteins in Hypertriglyceridemic Men

scientific article published on February 26, 1998

Effect of lifibrol on the metabolism of low density lipoproteins and cholesterol

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Effect of losartan and spironolactone on triglyceride-rich lipoproteins in diabetic nephropathy

scientific article published on 07 July 2016

Effectiveness and tolerability of simvastatin plus fenofibrate for combined hyperlipidemia (the SAFARI trial).

scientific article published in February 2005

Effectiveness of low-dose crystalline nicotinic acid in men with low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels

scientific article published on 01 May 1996

Effects of N-3 fatty acids on hepatic triglyceride content in humans

scientific article published in June 2008

Effects of adding fenofibrate (200 mg/day) to simvastatin (10 mg/day) in patients with combined hyperlipidemia and metabolic syndrome

scientific article published in April 2003

Effects of combined therapy with lovastatin and colestipol in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia. Effects on kinetics of apolipoprotein B

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Effects of crystalline nicotinic acid-induced hepatic dysfunction on serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and lecithin cholesteryl acyl transferase.

scientific article published in March 1998

Effects of lovastatin on the levels, structure, and atherogenicity of VLDL in patients with moderate hypertriglyceridemia

scientific article published on 01 April 1993

Effects of simvastatin on cholesterol metabolism and Alzheimer disease biomarkers.

scientific article published on July 2010

Efficacy, safety, and tolerability of once-daily niacin for the treatment of dyslipidemia associated with type 2 diabetes: results of the assessment of diabetes control and evaluation of the efficacy of niaspan trial

scientific article

Elevated hepatic lipase activity and low levels of high density lipoprotein in a normotriglyceridemic, nonobese Turkish population

scientific article published on March 1999

Estimation of turnover of low density lipoproteins by simplified methods

scientific article published on 01 April 1989

Ethnic and gender susceptibility to metabolic risk

scientific article published on 10 December 2013

Ethnic differences in hepatic steatosis: an insulin resistance paradox?

scientific article published on March 2009

Ethnic-specific criteria for the metabolic syndrome: evidence from China

scientific article published in June 2006

Evaluation of a method for study of kinetics of autologous apolipoprotein A-I

scientific article published on 01 May 1991

Evaluation of quantitative models of the effect of insulin on lipolysis and glucose disposal

scientific article published on 06 August 2008

Familial defective apolipoprotein B-100: a mutation of apolipoprotein B that causes hypercholesterolemia

scientific article published on August 1990

Familial defective apolipoprotein B-100: enhanced binding of monoclonal antibody MB47 to abnormal low density lipoproteins.

scientific article

Familial defective apolipoprotein B-100: low density lipoproteins with abnormal receptor binding

scientific article

Fasting Glucose, Obesity, and Metabolic Syndrome as Predictors of Type 2 Diabetes: The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study

scientific article published on December 1, 2012

Fatty acid oxidation in normotriglyceridemic men.

scientific article published on 2 December 2015

Fibric acids: effects on lipids and lipoprotein metabolism

scientific article published on November 1987

Four new mutations in the apolipoprotein B gene causing hypobetalipoproteinemia, including two different frameshift mutations that yield truncated apolipoprotein B proteins of identical length

scientific article published on 01 March 1993

Free fatty acid metabolism during fenofibrate treatment of the metabolic syndrome

scientific article published in September 2003

Gemfibrozil therapy in primary hypertriglyceridemia associated with coronary heart disease. Effects on metabolism of low-density lipoproteins

scientific article published on 01 April 1985

Hepatic lipase (LIPC) promoter polymorphism in men with coronary artery disease. Allele frequency and effects on hepatic lipase activity and plasma HDL-C concentrations

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Hepatic lipase activity influences high density lipoprotein subclass distribution in normotriglyceridemic men. Genetic and pharmacological evidence

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

Hepatic lipase activity is lower in African American men than in white American men: effects of 5' flanking polymorphism in the hepatic lipase gene (LIPC)

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Hepatic lipase: new insights from genetic and metabolic studies

scientific article

Higher Acute Insulin Response to Glucose May Determine Greater Free Fatty Acid Clearance in African-American Women

scientific article published on May 18, 2011

Higher Natriuretic Peptide Levels Associate With a Favorable Adipose Tissue Distribution Profile

scientific article published on April 16, 2013

Hypercholesterolemia in postmenopausal women. Metabolic defects and response to low-dose lovastatin

scientific article published on 01 February 1994

Hypercholesterolemia with cholesterol-enriched LDL and normal levels of LDL-apolipoprotein B. Effects of the step I diet and bile acid sequestrants on the cholesterol content of LDL

scientific article published on 01 April 1996

Hypertriglyceridemia: causes and relation to coronary heart disease

scientific article published on April 1988

Hypoalphalipoproteinemia (low high density lipoprotein) as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

scientific article published on August 1996

Impact of body mass and body composition on circulating levels of natriuretic peptides: results from the Dallas Heart Study

scientific article published in October 2005

Impaired hepatic ketogenesis in moderately obese men with hypertriglyceridemia

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In vivo evidence for reduced binding of low density lipoproteins to receptors as a cause of primary moderate hypercholesterolemia

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Increased catabolism of VLDL-apolipoprotein B and synthesis of bile acids in a case of hypobetalipoproteinemia

scientific article published on 01 March 1987

Independent associations between metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus and atherosclerosis: observations from the Dallas Heart Study

scientific article published in June 2008

Indices of cholesterol metabolism and relative responsiveness to ezetimibe and simvastatin

scientific article

Influence of Upper and Lower Body Adipose Tissue on Insulin Sensitivity in South Asian Men

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

Influence of body fat content and distribution on variation in metabolic risk.

scientific article

Influence of combined therapy with mevinolin and interruption of bile-acid reabsorption on low density lipoproteins in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia

scientific article published on 01 September 1985

Influence of extended-release nicotinic acid on nonesterified fatty acid flux in the metabolic syndrome with atherogenic dyslipidemia

scientific article published in June 2005

Influence of lovastatin on concentrations and composition of lipoprotein subfractions

scientific article published in October 1990

Influence of lovastatin therapy on metabolism of low density lipoproteins in mixed hyperlipidaemia

scientific article published on 01 October 1991

Influence of mevinolin on metabolism of low density lipoproteins in primary moderate hypercholesterolemia

scientific article published on 01 December 1985

Influence of polyunsaturated fats on composition of plasma lipoproteins and apolipoproteins

scientific article published on 01 August 1982

Insulin resistance and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in young adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

scientific article published on 29 June 2009

Interleukin-18, the metabolic syndrome, and subclinical atherosclerosis: results from the Dallas Heart Study.

scientific article published on 12 July 2007

Is intra-abdominal obesity a unique risk factor for metabolic syndrome in non-diabetics?

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Is non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol a marker and therapeutic target for dyslipidemia in metabolic syndrome?

scientific article published on 19 August 2014

Kinetic heterogeneity of low density lipoproteins in primary hypertriglyceridemia

scientific article published on 01 July 1986

Kinetic mechanisms determining variability in low density lipoprotein levels and rise with age.

scientific article published in November 1985

LDL Phenotype in Subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Lipoprotein responses to treatment with lovastatin, gemfibrozil, and nicotinic acid in normolipidemic patients with hypoalphalipoproteinemia

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Lovastatin therapy in familial dysbetalipoproteinemia: effects on kinetics of apolipoprotein B

scientific article published on 01 March 1988

Lovastatin therapy in nephrotic hyperlipidemia: effects on lipoprotein metabolism

scientific article published on 01 June 1988

Lovastatin therapy in receptor-negative homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia: Lack of effect on low-density lipoprotein concentrations or turnover

scientific article published on 01 August 1988

Low density lipoprotein kinetics in a family having defective low density lipoprotein receptors in which hypercholesterolemia is suppressed

scientific article published in May 1991

Low density lipoprotein metabolism in hypertriglyceridemic and normolipidemic patients with coronary heart disease

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

Low-density lipoprotein metabolism in cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis

scientific article published on March 1987

Lp(a) lipoprotein is an independent, discriminating risk factor for premature peripheral atherosclerosis among white men

scientific article published on 01 April 1994

Management of atherogenic dyslipidemia of the metabolic syndrome: evolving rationale for combined drug therapy

scientific article published in September 2004

Management of primary mixed hyperlipidemia with lovastatin

scientific article published on June 1990

Mechanisms and treatment of dyslipidemia of renal diseases.

scientific article published on September 1993

Mechanisms of primary hypercholesterolemia in humans

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Metabolic Concomitants of Obese and Nonobese Women With Features of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

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Metabolic Risk Susceptibility in Men Is Partially Related to Adiponectin/Leptin Ratio

scientific article published on March 6, 2013

Metabolic basis of primary hypercholesterolemia

scientific article published on 01 July 1991

Metabolic correlates of nonalcoholic fatty liver in women and men

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Metabolic syndrome is a sequela of radiation exposure in hypothalamic obesity among survivors of childhood brain tumors

scientific article published on 09 December 2018

Metabolic syndrome phenotype in very obese women

scientific article published in January 2007

Metabolism of low density lipoproteins in nephrotic dyslipidemia: comparison of hypercholesterolemia alone and combined hyperlipidemia

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

Moderate to High Levels of Cardiorespiratory Fitness Attenuate the Effects of Triglyceride to High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Ratio on Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Men.

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Multiple rare variants in NPC1L1 associated with reduced sterol absorption and plasma low-density lipoprotein levels

scholarly article

No association between plasma levels of plant sterols and atherosclerosis in mice and men.

scientific article published on 28 October 2004

Normal triglyceride levels despite insulin resistance in African Americans: role of lipoprotein lipase

scientific article published in July 2005

Normocholesterolemic tendon xanthomatosis with overproduction of apolipoprotein B

scientific article published on 01 February 1983

Occurrence of species of low-density lipoprotein with defective clearance in patients with primary moderate hypercholesterolaemia

scientific article published on November 1, 1992

Oxandrolone enhances hepatic ketogenesis in adult men.

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Pathogenesis of hypertriglyceridemia: implications for coronary heart disease and therapy

scientific article published on January 1988

Persistence of abnormalities in metabolism of apolipoproteins B-100 and A-I after weight reduction in patients with primary hypertriglyceridemia

scientific article published on August 1, 1992

Physiologic levels of ascorbate inhibit the oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein

scientific article published in June 1990

Physiologic mechanisms for reduced apolipoprotein A-I concentrations associated with low levels of high density lipoprotein cholesterol in patients with normal plasma lipids

scientific article published on 01 October 1992

Plasma 24S hydroxycholesterol response to statins in Alzheimer's disease patients: effects of gender, CYP46, and ApoE polymorphisms.

scientific article published on September 2007

Plasma 24S-hydroxycholesterol and other oxysterols in acute closed head injury

scientific article published in July 2008

Plasma cholesterol responsiveness to saturated fatty acids

scientific article published on 01 May 1988

Postheparin lipolytic activity and plasma lipoprotein response to omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in patients with primary hypertriglyceridemia

scientific article published on 01 March 1991

Pravastatin therapy in primary moderate hypercholesterolaemia: changes in metabolism of apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins

scientific article published on 01 February 1990

Pravastatin treatment of very low density, intermediate density and low density lipoproteins in hypercholesterolemia and combined hyperlipidemia secondary to the nephrotic syndrome

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome as influenced by the measure of obesity employed

scientific article published in May 2010

Prevention Conference VI: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: Writing Group IV: lifestyle and medical management of risk factors

scientific article

Primary hypertriglyceridemia with borderline high cholesterol and elevated apolipoprotein B concentrations. Comparison of gemfibrozil vs lovastatin therapy

scientific article published on 01 December 1990

Quantitation of apolipoprotein B by chemical methods

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Rationale and management of hyperlipidemia of the nephrotic syndrome.

scientific article

Reduction in levels of 24S-hydroxycholesterol by statin treatment in patients with Alzheimer disease

scientific article published in April 2003

Relation between cholesterol ester transfer protein activities and lipoprotein cholesterol in patients with hypercholesterolemia and combined hyperlipidemia

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Relation of plasma ceramides to visceral adiposity, insulin resistance and the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Dallas Heart Study

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Relation of regional fat distribution to left ventricular structure and function

scientific article published on 08 August 2013

Relationship between perceptions about neighborhood environment and prevalent obesity: data from the dallas heart study

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Relationship of apolipoprotein B levels to the number of risk factors for metabolic syndrome

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Responsiveness of plasma lipids and lipoproteins to plant stanol esters

scientific article published in July 2005

Role of apolipoprotein levels in clinical practice

scientific article published on August 1990

Serum lipids in the GENECARD study of coronary artery disease identify quantitative trait loci and phenotypic subsets on chromosomes 3q and 5q.

scientific article

Sex differences in the association between leptin and CRP: results from the Dallas Heart Study

scientific article published in December 2006

Sex differences in the relationship between C-reactive protein and body fat.

scientific article published on 30 June 2009

Sources of variability in genetic association studies: insights from the analysis of hepatic lipase (LIPC).

scientific article published in May 2002

Studies on mechanisms for enhanced clearance of low-density lipoproteins in patients with primary hypertriglyceridaemia

scientific article published on 01 July 1989

Temporal decline in non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in subjects with diabetes mellitus without atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

scientific article published on 25 April 2020

Ten-year risk of cardiovascular incidence related to diabetes, prediabetes, and the metabolic syndrome

scientific article published in April 2007

The -514 polymorphism in the hepatic lipase gene (LIPC) does not influence androgen-mediated stimulation of hepatic lipase activity

scientific article published on July 1, 1998

The association of cardiorespiratory fitness, body mass index, and age with testosterone levels at screening of healthy men undergoing preventive medical examinations: The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study

scientific article published on 29 September 2018

The effects of gender and CYP46 and apo E polymorphism on 24S-hydroxycholesterol levels in Alzheimer's patients treated with statins

scientific article published in February 2004

Three polymorphisms associated with low hepatic lipase activity are common in African Americans

scientific article published on September 1, 1998

Traditional signs and symptoms commonly attributed to hypogonadism do not correlate with testosterone levels: the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study Experience

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Treatment of primary moderate hypercholesterolemia with lovastatin (mevinolin) and colestipol

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Triglyceride-to-high-density-lipoprotein-cholesterol ratio is an index of heart disease mortality and of incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in men.

scientific article published in February 2014

Two different views of the relationship of hypertriglyceridemia to coronary heart disease. Implications for treatment

scientific article published on January 1992

Two patterns of LDL metabolism in normotriglyceridemic patients with hypoalphalipoproteinemia

scientific article published on 01 April 1993

Upper body fat predicts metabolic syndrome similarly in men and women

scientific article published on 15 May 2018

Use of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors in various forms of dyslipidemia

scientific article published on September 1990

Variability in cholesterol content and physical properties of lipoproteins containing apolipoprotein B-100

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

Variability in postheparin hepatic lipase activity is associated with plasma adiponectin levels in African Americans

scientific article published in May 2007

Variable contributions of fat content and distribution to metabolic syndrome risk factors

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Waist Circumference as Measure of Abdominal Fat Compartments

scientific article published on May 8, 2013

What is Meant by Overproduction of Apo B-Containing Lipoproteins?

scientific article published on January 1, 1991