Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in South Asians in the United States: epidemiology, risk factors, and treatments: a scientific statement from the American Heart …

AS Volgman, LS Palaniappan, NT Aggarwal, M Gupta… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
South Asians (from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri
Lanka) make up one quarter of the world's population and are one of the fastest-growing …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-regression analysis of the effects of dietary cholesterol intake on LDL and HDL cholesterol

MJ Vincent, B Allen, OM Palacios, LT Haber… - The American journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is a major risk factor for
cardiovascular disease. Dietary guidance recommends reducing saturated fatty acid, trans …

Extending the MR‐Egger method for multivariable Mendelian randomization to correct for both measured and unmeasured pleiotropy

JMB Rees, AM Wood, S Burgess - Statistics in medicine, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Methods have been developed for Mendelian randomization that can obtain consistent
causal estimates while relaxing the instrumental variable assumptions. These include …

Powerful three-sample genome-wide design and robust statistical inference in summary-data Mendelian randomization

Q Zhao, Y Chen, J Wang… - International journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Summary-data Mendelian randomization (MR) has become a popular
research design to estimate the causal effect of risk exposures. With the sample size of …

[HTML][HTML] ω-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and cardiometabolic health: current evidence, controversies, and research gaps

KC Maki, F Eren, ME Cassens, MR Dicklin… - Advances in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend limiting the intake of
saturated fatty acids (SFAs) to< 10% of energy/d and replacing dietary SFAs with …

Causal effect of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 on coronary heart disease

C Song, S Burgess, JD Eicher… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI‐1) plays an essential role in the
fibrinolysis system and thrombosis. Population studies have reported that blood PAI‐1 levels …

Cholesterol efflux capacity and its association with adverse cardiovascular events: a systematic review and meta-analysis

JJ Lee, G Chi, C Fitzgerald, SHA Kazmi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels are inversely
associated with cardiovascular disease events. Yet, emerging evidence suggests that it is …

Genetics: implications for prevention and management of coronary artery disease

TL Assimes, R Roberts - Journal of the American College of cardiology, 2016 - jacc.org
An exciting new era has dawned for the prevention and management of coronary artery
disease (CAD) utilizing genetic risk variants. The recent identification of over 60 …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating ceramides as biomarkers of cardiovascular disease: Evidence from phenotypic and genomic studies

KA McGurk, BD Keavney, A Nicolaou - Atherosclerosis, 2021 - Elsevier
There is a need for new biomarkers of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ACVD), the
main cause of death globally. Ceramides, a class of potent bioactive lipid mediators, have …

Advances in lipidomics

HF Avela, H Siren - Clinica Chimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The present article examines recently published literature on lipids, mainly focusing on
research involving glycero-, glycerophospho-and sphingo-lipids. The primary aim is …