Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease results in >19 million deaths annually, and coronary
heart disease accounts for the majority of this toll. Despite major advances in treatment of …

… 28 Huang Y, von Eckardstein A, Wu S, Maeda N, Assmann G. A solely apolipoprotein E
containing plasma lipoprotein with electrophoretic gamma-mobility takes up cellular cholesterol. …

… HDL particles are characterized by high density (>1.063 g/mL) and small size (Stoke’s
diameter =5 to 17 nm). The various HDL subclasses vary in quantitative and qualitative content of …

… with a higher risk of stroke (HR per 100 g per week higher consumption 1·14, 95% … g per
week, those who reported drinking >100–≤200 g per week, >200–≤350 g per week, or >350 g …

Background— The absolute risk of an acute coronary event depends on the totality of risk
factors exhibited by an individual, the so-called global risk profile. Although several scoring …

… A further homozygous Tangier individual from Switzerland showed two mutations in the
heterozygous form: a C→G mutation in codon 567 in exon 13, which creates a stop codon; and a …

… -Stiftung für Prävention, Munster, Germany (Assmann); Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie
et Pneumologie de Québec, Quebec, Canada (Dagenais); Leiden University Medical Center, …

Background To help adapt cardiovascular disease risk prediction approaches to low-income
and middle-income countries, WHO has convened an effort to develop, evaluate, and …

The incidence of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) was assessed in 4,559 male
participants (aged 40 to 64 years) from the Prospective Cardiovascular Münster study, over …

… , Assmann G. Physiological role and clinical relevance of high density lipoprotein subclasses.
Curt {)pin Lipidol 1994;5:404. [30] Huang Y, yon Eckardstein A, Wu S, Maeda N, Assmann (…