Metabolic syndrome and related disorders
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Metab Syndr Relat Disord · Apr 2009
Comparative StudyMetabolic and lifestyle predictors of ischemic heart disease and all-cause mortality among normal weight, overweight, and obese men: a 16-year follow-up in the Copenhagen Male Study.
The aim of this study was to identify metabolic and lifestyle risk factors for ischemic heart disease (IHD) and all-cause mortality (ACM) among normal weight, overweight, and obese men. ⋯ The importance of risk factors for IHD mortality, in particular serum TG and serum HDL-C, depends on BMI.
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Metab Syndr Relat Disord · Jan 2004
The triglyceride/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio, the small dense low-density lipoprotein phenotype, and ischemic heart disease risk.
This study investigated the relevance of using the plasma triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (Log TG/HDL-C) for the prediction of the small dense lowdensity lipoprotein (LDL) phenotype and the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD). Analyses were based on data from the Quebec Cardiovascular Study in a cohort of 2072 men free of IHD at baseline, among whom 262 had a first IHD event (coronary death, non fatal myocardial infarction and unstable angina) during a 13-year follow-up period. LDL particle size phenotype was characterized using 2-16% polyacrylamide gradient gel electrophoresis (PAGGE) of whole plasma. ⋯ Finally, elevations in the Log TG/HDL-C ratio did not improve the discrimination of incident IHD cases from non IHD cases compared to the use of plasma TG levels alone (p = 0.5) or a combination of the individual TG and HDL-C values (p = 0.5). The Log TG/HDL-C ratio does not improve our ability to identify individuals with the small dense LDL phenotype compared to plasma TG levels alone. The Log TG/HDLC is also not superior to plasma TG levels alone in predicting IHD risk in men of the QuA(c)bec Cardiovascular Study.