Editorial Lp(a) – the underestimated cardiovascular risk factor
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Editorial Lp(a) – the underestimated cardiovascular risk factor
Despite optimized therapeutic approaches, coronary heart disease with its secondary diseases, such as myocardial infarction and chronic heart failure, as well as embolic stroke are the main causes of morbidity and mortality. They result from inflammatory processes induced by lipoproteins such as oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL), VLDL and lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)). Fifty years after the first...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Research in Cardiology Supplements
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1861-0706,1861-0714
DOI: 10.1007/s11789-017-0091-2