Lack of Association Between Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and PAF-Acetylhydrolase Mass and Activity in Patients with Primary Hyperlipidemia
- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Angiology
- Vol. 56 (4), 451-458
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000331970505600413
Abstract
Carotid intima media thickness (IMT), represents an important clinical indicator of early atherosclerosis. Human plasma platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase (PAF-AH) is an enzyme primarily associated with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) while a small proportion of enzymatic activity is also associated with high-density lipoprotein (HDL). Plasma paraoxonase 1 (PON1) is an esterase exclusively associated with HDL. The authors investigated the possible relationship between carotid IMT and the plasma levels of PAF-AH mass and activity as well as the PON1 activity in hyperlipidemic patients. One hundred unrelated patients with primary hyperlipidemia and 67 age- and sex-matched normolipidemic apparently healthy volunteers participated in the study. The PAF-AH activity in total plasma and in HDL-rich plasma (HDL-PAF-AH activity), the plasma PAF-AH mass, and the serum PON1 activities toward paraoxon and phenyl acetate were determined. The plasma PAF-AH mass and activity were higher in hyperlipidemic patients compared to controls, whereas the HDL-PAF-AH activity, as well as the serum PON1 activities were not significantly different between the studied groups. When hyperlipidemic patients were divided into 2 subgroups according to their IMT values (IMTKeywords
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