title: [Lipid indicators of vascular risk. A cross-sectional study of a group of coronary patients, a group of subjects with normal coronary angiography and a control group].
abstract: During a transverse survey, 3 groups of men with the same weight and age were compared. Group I included 42 patients with coronary disease documented by coronarography, group 2 included 19 subjects with normal coronary angiograms, and group 3 included 27 healthy controls who had not undergone coronarography. Subjects presenting diabetes or any factor associated with secondary dyslipidemia or able to modify lipid levels were excluded from study. The following parameters were measured: total cholesterol (Chol), triglycerides (TG), HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C), LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C), apoprotein A1 (apoA1), apoprotein B (apoB), lipoprotein (a) or Lp(a), fibrinogen, insulinemia and plasminogen activator inhibitor activity (PAI). The levels of chol, LDL-C and ApoB were the same in the 3 groups. The levels of TG, HDL-C, apoA1 and the ApoA-1/APoB ratio were significantly different between groups 1 and 2, on the one hand, and groups 1 and 3, on the other hand. The levels of Lp(a) and insulin were similar in the 3 groups. Fibrinogen levels were slightly higher in group 1 than in group 3. There was no significant difference between groups 1 and 2 with regard to any of the parameters. Subjects with angiographically normal coronary arteries and subjects with documented coronary disease exhibited similar lipid abnormalities. In this study, TG, HDL-chol, apoA1 and the apoB ratio were better predictors of cardiovascular risk than Chol, LDL-C or apoB.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine Interne et Endocrinologie, CHU Timone, Marseille.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heim
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bory
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ardissone
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Rocca Serra
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Giordanella
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Auquier
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Juhan-Vague
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Simonin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001053:Apolipoproteins / Q000097:blood*; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000097:blood* / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005340:Fibrinogen / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015849:Plasminogen Inactivators / Q000378:metabolism; D012307:Risk Factors; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D001053:Apolipoproteins; D007328:Insulin; D015849:Plasminogen Inactivators; D014280:Triglycerides; D005340:Fibrinogen; D002784:Cholesterol
vernacular_title: Les marqueurs lipidiques du risque vasculaire. Etude transversale d'un groupe d'hommes coronariens, d'un groupe à coronaires angiographiquement normales et d'un groupe témoin.