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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 39, 477-480, Copyright © 1993 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Relation of lipoprotein(a) in 11- to 19-year-old adolescents to parental cardiovascular heart disease

JC Vella and E Jover
Junta de Castilla y Leon, Hospital Fuente Bermeja, Burgos, Spain.

We studied several risk factors in relation to parental cardiovascular heart disease: total cholesterol, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, apolipoprotein (apo) A-I, apo B, and lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] were determined in 322 serum samples (43 from subjects with and 279 without parental cardiovascular heart disease). The distribution of Lp(a) concentrations in our young population was similar to that of other white populations, i.e., markedly skewed, with higher frequencies at low values. As compared with children whose parents did not report cardiovascular heart disease, those with affected parents had a higher mean Lp(a) (0.23 vs 0.18 g/L; P < 0.05). Moreover, 42% of the children with parental cardiovascular heart disease, but only 19% of those with no parental cardiovascular heart disease, exhibited Lp(a) values > 0.30 g/L. These results suggest not only that Lp(a) is an important risk factor for cardiovascular heart disease, but also that Lp(a) is more strongly related to the risk of cardiovascular heart disease than are HDL- and LDL-cholesterol and apo A-I and B.


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