Genetic invalidation of Lp-PLA(2) as a therapeutic target: Large-scale study of five functional Lp-PLA(2)-lowering alleles

AIMS: Darapladib, a potent inhibitor of lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A(2) (Lp-PLA(2)), has not reduced risk of cardiovascular disease outcomes in recent randomized trials. We aimed to test whether Lp-PLA(2) enzyme activity is causally relevant to coronary heart disease. METHODS: In 72,657 pa...

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Autores principales: Gregson, John M, Freitag, Daniel F, Surendran, Praveen, Stitziel, Nathan O, Chowdhury, Rajiv, Burgess, Stephen, Kaptoge, Stephen, Gao, Pei, Staley, James R, Willeit, Peter, Nielsen, Sune F, Caslake, Muriel, Trompet, Stella, Polfus, Linda M, Kuulasmaa, Kari, Kontto, Jukka, Perola, Markus, Blankenberg, Stefan, Veronesi, Giovanni, Gianfagna, Francesco, Männistö, Satu, Kimura, Akinori, Lin, Honghuang, Reilly, Dermot F, Gorski, Mathias, Mijatovic, Vladan, Munroe, Patricia B, Ehret, Georg B, Thompson, Alex, Uria-Nickelsen, Maria, Malarstig, Anders, Dehghan, Abbas, Vogt, Thomas F, Sasaoka, Taishi, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Kato, Norihiro, Yamada, Yoshiji, Kee, Frank, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Ferrières, Jean, Arveiler, Dominique, Amouyel, Philippe, Salomaa, Veikko, Boerwinkle, Eric, Thompson, Simon G, Ford, Ian, Wouter Jukema, J, Sattar, Naveed, Packard, Chris J, Shafi Majumder, Abdulla al, Alam, Dewan S, Deloukas, Panos, Schunkert, Heribert, Samani, Nilesh J, Kathiresan, Sekar, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Saleheen, Danish, Howson, Joanna MM, Di Angelantonio, Emanuele, Butterworth, Adam S, Danesh, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
Materias:
Coronary Heart Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5460752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27940953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2047487316682186

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