The aim of the present study was to investigate the associations between total adiposity, body fat distribution, and plasma lipoprotein levels within groups of women defined on the basis of apolipoprotein E phenotypes, in order to verify whether apoE polymorphism could modify these associations. In women having only apolipoprotein E3 isoforms (n = 24), body fat mass, the waist: hip circumferenc...

Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease of the arterial wall. It is accompanied by an autoimmune response against apolipoprotein B-100, the core protein of low-density lipoprotein, which manifests as CD4 T cell and antibody responses. To assess the role of the autoimmune response in atherosclerosis, the nature of the CD4 T cell response against apolipoprotein B-100 was studied with and witho...

This study reports the changes in total cholesterol, triacylglycerols, apolipoproteins A-I, B, C-II and (a) before, directly after and 48 hours after chronic renal dialysis on 46 non-selected patients (20 male, 26 female; time since first dialysis 1-203 months (median 22 months), median age 52 years, range 25-82 years). Thirty six of the 46 patients (17 men and 19 women) suffered from hypertens...

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Apolipoprotein B, the major protein component of very-low-density (VLDL) and low-density (LDL) lipoproteins in serum, is being widely measured in serum, to help assess risk of cardiovascular disease. Standardization has proven difficult because of the physical and immunochemical heterogeneity of LDL and VLDL, the masking of antigenic determinants of LDL and VLDL, the insolubility of apolipoprot...

objectives: controversial findings exist regarding the association between neonate gender and umbilical cord blood lipid levels. this study aims to compare the levels of lipids and lipoprotein b-100 in the umbilical cord blood of male and female newborns and assess the impact of these factors on neonatal anthropometric measurements. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 75 health...