title: Remnant-like particle cholesterol levels in Korean patients with coronary artery disease and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.
abstract: Several studies have provided evidence that the remnants of lipoproteins may be the atherogenic components of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the remnant-like particle cholesterol (RLP-C) is an independent risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD) and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) in the Korean population and to explore the relationship between RLP-C and other biochemical markers as well as the apolipoprotein (apo) E genotypes. Lipid and lipoproteins including RLP-C and apo E genotypes were analyzed in 98 normal adults (control group), 68 patients with CAD (CAD group), 88 patients with NIDDM (DM group), and 19 patients with both CAD and NDDM (CAD + DM group). RLP-C levels were significantly higher in the DM (p < 0.0001), CAD (p = 0.0012) and the CAD + DM groups (p = 0.0184) than in the controls. To determine which variable could discriminate most effectively and independently among the different groups, stepwise linear discriminant analysis was performed for all the variables that showed p < 0.15 by univariate analysis. RLP-C was selected as an independent discriminator between the control and patient groups. RLP-C levels showed a strong positive correlation with trigylceride levels in the control, CAD and DM groups (r = 0.783, r = 0.610 and r = 0.746, respectively). In overall groups, apo epsilon4 and epsilon2 carrier genotypes showed a significant increase in RLP-C levels compared with epsilon3/3 wild-type (p = 0.0085). After adjusting for the effect of apo E genotypes, a significant increase of the RLP-C levels in the disease groups remained. In conclusion, RLP-C was determined to be an independent risk factor in Korean patients with CAD and NIDDM and showed a strong correlation with triglyceride levels. We suggest that the increased cardiovascular risk associated with the epsilon4 and epsilon2 allele may be mediated by more atherogenic RLP-C.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Y B
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: J Q
authors.initials: JQ
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001053:Apolipoproteins / Q000097:blood*; D001057:Apolipoproteins E / Q000097:blood* / Q000235:genetics; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000097:blood*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D001053:Apolipoproteins; D001057:Apolipoproteins E; D008074:Lipoproteins; D014280:Triglycerides; C112017:remnant-like particle cholesterol; D002784:Cholesterol