HDL: Metodi di misura, eterogeneità delle particelle, proposta di nomenclatura e relazione con gli eventi cardiovascolari aterosclerotici

Translated title of the contribution: HDL: Methods of measurement, heterogeneity of the particles, proposal of nomenclature and relation to atherosclerotic cardiovascular events

Robert S. Rosenson, H. Bryan Brewer, M. John Chapman, Sergio Fazio, M. Mahmood Hussain, Anatol Kontush, Ronald M. Krauss, James D. Otvos, Alan T. Remaley, Ernst J. Schaefer

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Abstract

A growing body of evidence from epidemiological data, animal studies, and clinical trials supports HDL as the next target to reduce residual cardiovascular risk in statin-treated, high-risk patients. For more than 3 decades, HDL cholesterol has been employed as the principal clinical measure of HDL and cardiovascular risk associated with low HDL-cholesterol concentrations. The physicochemical and functional heterogeneity of HDL present important challenges to investigators in the cardiovascular field who are seeking to identify more effective laboratory and clinical methods to develop a measurement method to quantify HDL that has predictive value in assessing cardiovascular risk. In this report, we critically evaluate the diverse physical and chemical methods that have been employed to characterize plasma HDL. To facilitate future characterization of HDL subfractions, we propose the development of a new nomenclature based on physical properties for the subfractions of HDL that includes very large HDL particles (VL-HDL), large HDL particles (L-HDL), medium HDL particles (M-HDL), small HDL particles (S-HDL), and very-small HDL particles (VS-HDL). This nomenclature also includes an entry for the pre-β-1 HDL subclass that participates in macrophage cholesterol efflux. We anticipate that adoption of a uniform nomenclature system for HDL subfractions that integrates terminology from several methods will enhance our ability not only to compare findings with different approaches for HDL fractionation, but also to assess the clinical effects of different agents that modulate HDL particle structure, metabolism, and function, and in turn, cardiovascular risk prediction within these HDL subfractions.

Translated title of the contributionHDL: Methods of measurement, heterogeneity of the particles, proposal of nomenclature and relation to atherosclerotic cardiovascular events
Original languageItalian
Pages (from-to)46-65
Number of pages20
JournalBiochimica Clinica
Volume36
Issue number1
StatePublished - Feb 2012
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Clinical Biochemistry
  • Medical Laboratory Technology
  • Biochemistry, medical

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