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Characteristics of low-density lipoprotein subfractions from patients with coronary artery disease

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1993

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Olli Jaakkola, Tuna Solakivi, Vladimir V. Tertov, Alexander N. Orekhov, Tatu A. Miettinen, T. Nikkari

Coronary Artery Disease

Abstract

The results suggest that the dense LDL subfractions of patients with CAD are atherogenic by promoting intracellular cholesterol ester accumulation. The results also suggest that the atherogenicity is associated with reduced sialic acid content of the LDL subspecies.