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Cholesterol Efflux Assay
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降低胆固醇产生临床益处. 对旧数据的新视角
A L Gould1, J E Rossouw, N C Santanello
1Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pa 19486, USA.
Circulation
|April 15, 1995
概括
降低胆固醇可以降低冠心病和总死亡率. 然而,某些干预措施,如纤维酸和激素携带特定的风险,增加非冠状动脉心脏病和总死亡率.
科学领域:
- 心血管医学 心血管医学
- 临床试验 临床试验
- 进行元分析分析.
背景情况:
- 关于降胆固醇干预措施的净益处的持续辩论.
- 需要区分降低胆固醇的影响与干预具体影响.
研究的目的:
- 对随机试验 (>2年) 进行元分析,以评估降低胆固醇,冠心病 (CHD) 死亡率,非CHD死亡率和总死亡率之间的关系.
- 评估独立于降低胆固醇的干预具体效应.
主要方法:
- 35个随机试验的元分析,持续时间超过2年.
- 分析方法将降胆固醇效应与干预特异性效应分开.
主要成果:
- 胆固醇降低10%与心血管疾病死亡率降低13% (P < .002) 和总死亡率降低10% (P < .03) 相相关.
- 降低胆固醇并没有影响非心血管疾病死亡率.
- 纤维酸分别增加了非心血管疾病和总死亡率约30% (P < .01) 和17% (P < .02).
- 激素在男性中增加了27%的心血管疾病死亡率 (P < .04),非心血管疾病死亡率增加了55% (P < .03),总死亡率增加了33% (P < .01).
- 饮食,树脂,尼亚,他类药物和部分胆固醇绕道没有独立于降低胆固醇的特定不良影响.
结论:
- 降低胆固醇本身表明对死亡率有有益影响.
- 具体的干预措施,特别是纤维酸和激素,与非心脏病和总死亡率的风险增加有关,激素也会增加心脏病死亡率.
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