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Beyond Statins: New Therapeutic Frontiers for Cardiovascular Disease

Author(s) -

Sri Devi Narasimhan

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.032

Subject(s) - cholesterol , biology , asymptomatic , disease , lipoprotein , reverse cholesterol transport , medicine , endocrinology , physiology

With age, the trip to -your doctor for the annual physical check-up can be a daunting one. A perfect blood and lipid profile during youth slowly caves in to the inevitable process of aging, leading to slow but steady deflections in physiological metrics. For many, an especially surprising result is that of the levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLc) and the ratio of its comparison to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLc). LDL and HDL are lipoproteins that bind and transport cholesterol in the body.

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