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High-density lipoprotein: why all the fuss?

Bharti Mackness and Mike Mackness

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Corresponding author: Dr Mike Mackness. Email: mike.Mackness{at}manchester.ac.uk

The current search for new treatments to combat coronary heart disease (CHD) is centred on increasing HDL-cholesterol. The failure of the CETP inhibitor torcetrapib may force a rethink. This perspective briefly reviews the antiatherosclerotic properties of HDL and ways HDL-cholesterol concentration can be raised, but argues – in light of the fact that HDL-cholesterol concentration does not reflect the protective properties of HDL particles – that this approach is flawed and a different approach, targeting know antiatherosclerotic components of HDL, is required.

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