Using Apolipoprotein B to Manage Dyslipidemic Patients: Time for a Change?

Non-HDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein B in the dyslipidemic classification of type 2 diabetic patients.

OBJECTIVE To compare non-HDL cholesterol (HDLc) and apolipoprotein B (apoB) in the identification of nonconventional high-risk dyslipidemic phenotypes in type 2 diabetic patients. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Total cholesterol and triglycerides, HDLc, LDL cholesterol, non-HDLc, apolipoprotein B (apoB), and LDL size were determined in 122 type 2 diabetic patients (68% male, aged 59.6 +/- 9.7 ye...

Is it time to measure apolipoprotein B?

Idiopathic Granulomatosis Mastitis, Time to a Paradigm Change in Treatment

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is among the chronic diseases of the breast, which is more common in Middle Eastern countries than in Western countries. Since the etiology of the disease is not well known, there is no international consensus on the management of the disease. Antibiotic, Non-Steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), corticosteroids, cytotoxic and immunosuppressive medi...

The association between small dense low density lipoprotein,apolipoprotein B, apolipoprotein B/apolipoprotein A1 ratio and coronary artery stenosis

  Abstract   Background: Recently, small dense low density lipoprotein (sdLDL) has been   highlighted as a new risk factor for the coronary artery disease (CAD).Small dense   LDLs are believed to be atherogenic since these particles are taken up more easily by   arterial wall. They are readily oxidized and have reduced affinity for low density   lipoprotein (LDL) receptor and increased affinity...

Using Hierarchal Change Mining to Manage Network Security Policy Evolution

Managing the security of complex cloud and networked computing environments requires crafting security policy—ranging from natural-language text to highly-structured configuration rules, sometimes multi-layered—specifying correct system behavior in an adversarial environment. Since environments change and evolve, managing security requires managing evolution of policies, which adds another laye...