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Clinical Chemistry 0: clinchem.2006.066845v1, 2006; 10.1373/clinchem.2006.066845
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Received on January 16, 2006
Accepted on March 29, 2006

Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors

High Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2 Is a Risk Factor for Recurrent Coronary Events in Postinfarction Patients

James P. Corsetti 1*, David L. Rainwater 2, Arthur J. Moss 3, Wojciech Zareba 3, Charles E. Sparks 1

1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY
2 Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, TX
3 Department of Medicine-Cardiology Unit, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: James_Corsetti{at}urmc.rochester.edu.

Background: Recent studies demonstrated that lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease presumably deriving from generation of proinflammatory and proatherogenic species through its hydrolytic activity on lipoprotein-associated phospholipids. The goal of this study was to assess the relationship of Lp-PLA2 with a set of thrombogenic, lipid, inflammatory, and metabolic blood markers and to determine whether plasma Lp-PLA2 is a risk factor for recurrent coronary events in postinfarction patients.

Methods: Factor analysis on the set of blood markers and Lp-PLA2 was performed for 766 patients of the Thrombogenic Factors and Recurrent Coronary Events (THROMBO) postinfarction study. Recurrent coronary event risk was assessed as a function of blood marker concentrations and Lp-PLA2 by Cox proportional hazards multivariate regression adjusted for significant clinical covariates.

Results: Factor analysis revealed that Lp-PLA2 was associated with one factor dominated by cholesterol and apolipoprotein B and another factor dominated by HDL-cholesterol and triglycerides, with little association with an inflammatory factor dominated by C-reactive protein. Multivariate analysis demonstrated as significant and independent predictors of risk of secondary coronary events only apolipoprotein B in a model without Lp-PLA2 (hazard ratio, 1.66; 95% confidence interval, 1.14-2.40) and only Lp-PLA2 in a model with Lp-PLA2 included [1.90 (1.31-2.75)].

Conclusions: Lp-PLA2 is a significant and independent predictor of risk for recurrent coronary events in postinfarction patients, and Lp-PLA2 is related to both hypercholesterolemia and high triglyceride-low HDL dyslipidemia in this study population.




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