ReviewCirculation research2014
High-density lipoprotein and atherosclerosis regression: evidence from preclinical and clinical studies.
Review in Circulation research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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83 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 172 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Effect of Intensive Lipid-Lowering Therapy on Coronary Plaque Stabilization Derived from Optical Coherence Tomography: a Meta-analysis and Meta-regression.Cardiovascular drugs and therapy · 2025 · on this mapPooled it
- Machine-Learning-Based Evaluation of the Prognostic Significance of the Non-High-Density Lipoprotein to High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Ratio in Critical Ischemic Stroke.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2026Article
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- Non-HDL to HDL cholesterol ratio as a potential biomarker for osteoporosis: A cross-sectional national population study.Medicine · 2026Article
- Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol drives multinucleated giant cell formation in response to mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette-Guérin.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- J-shaped association between non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (NHHR) and heart failure: a cross-sectional study.European journal of medical research · 2026Article
- Fatty acid metabolism and lipid channeling in macrophages: mechanisms of inflammation, resolution, and lipotoxicity.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Genetic determinants of lipid metabolism in cardioprotection: From mechanisms to clinical practice.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Review
- Association Between Serum Lipid-Bilirubin Ratio and Clinical Prognosis Among Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- Predicting carotid atherosclerosis in latent autoimmune diabetes in adult patients using machine learning models: a retrospective study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
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- Elevated high-density lipoprotein triglycerides increase atherosclerotic risk.Journal of lipid research · 2025Article
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- Age-Related Impairments in Immune Cell Efferocytosis and Autophagy Hinder Atherosclerosis Regression.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2025Article
- Changes in non-high-density lipoprotein to high-density lipoprotein ratio (NHHR) and cardiovascular disease: insights from CHARLS.Lipids in health and disease · 2025Article
- Association between non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio and cardiovascular disease mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and diabetic kidney disease.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Cognitive impairment and depression precede increased HDL-C levels in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: cross-lagged panel analyses.Lipids in health and disease · 2024Article
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- Effect of moderate-intensity statin on carotid intraplaque neovascularization of coronary artery disease: a retrospective cohort study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
23 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
High-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles transport (among other molecules) cholesterol (HDL-C). In epidemiological studies, plasma HDL-C levels have an inverse relationship to the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. It has been assumed that this reflects the protective functions of HDL, which include their ability to promote cholesterol efflux. Yet, several recent pharmacological and genetic studies have failed to demonstrate that increased plasma levels of HDL-C resulted in decreased cardiovascular disease risk, giving rise to a controversy regarding whether plasma levels of HDL-C reflect HDL function, or that HDL is even as protective as assumed. The evidence from preclinical and (limited) clinical studies shows that HDL can promote the regression of atherosclerosis when the levels of functional particles are increased from endogenous or exogenous sources. The data show that regression results from a combination of reduced plaque lipid and macrophage contents, as well as from a reduction in its inflammatory state. Although more research will be needed regarding basic mechanisms and to establish that these changes translate clinically to reduced cardiovascular disease events, that HDL can regress plaques suggests that the recent trial failures do not eliminate HDL from consideration as an atheroprotective agent but rather emphasizes the important distinction between HDL function and plasma levels of HDL-C.
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