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GLYCOCONJUGATE JOURNAL
Volume 31, Issue 8, Pages 587-592Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10719-014-9555-5
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Serum sulfatide; Carotid intima-media thickness; Heterozygous familial hypercholes-terolemia
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81370316]
- Hebei Province Natural Science Foundation [H2013307023]
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There is a positive association between sulfatide and atherosclerosis in an animal model for human familial hypercholesterolemia. Carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) is thought to be a marker of atherosclerosis in humans. We investigated the relationship between sulfatide and carotid IMT in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) patients. Thirty-five genetically-verified heterozygous patients with FH and 34 healthy controls were recruited into our study. We measured serum sulfatide levels, the carotid IMT, and conventional cardiovascular risk factors including obesity parameters, blood pressure, fasting blood glucose, and lipid profiles. Subjects with heterozygous FH had significantly elevated serum sulfatide, elevated total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and increased carotid IMT compared with control subjects. In patients with FH, univariate analysis showed that serum sulfatide was significantly correlated with carotid IMT. Multiple linear regression analysis indicated that serum sulfatide was the only independent predictor of carotid IMT in patients with FH. Patients with heterozygous FH had significantly higher carotid IMT and the level of serum sulfatide was independently associated with atherosclerotic progression. (R: 0.720, R-2: 0.503, p < 0.001).
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