Eder Carlos Rocha Quintão

• Abstract

  It is known in healthy that the ingestion of equal amounts of cholesterol results in a variable response in the concentration of cholesterol in plasma lipoproteins, attributed to individual differences in the ability to absorb food cholesterol and block its synthesis. These variations depend on unknown genetic factors and seem frequent and determinant in cases of familial genetic hypercho…

  Defect in intestinal cholesterol absorption as cause of primary hypercholesterolemia, AP.R

• Abstract

  We have finished and published the results of a FAPESP sponsored investigation (Fapesp # 2006/60585-9) in 800 healthy volunteer, both genders, selected from a population in the city of Campinas (State of São Paulo). After rigorously matching cases for age and gender and excluding biases due to obesity, diabetes, dyslipidemia, alcohol abuse, use of oral contraceptives and drugs that might …

  Is there any relationship of the degree of coronary artery disease in the Brazilian longitudinal study of adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) with plasma sterols markers of cholesterol metabolism?, AP.R

• Abstract

  Low plasma levels of HDL cholesterol are correlated with the incidence of cardiovascular disease in a much more significant manner than are high plasma levels of LDL cholesterol, which makes low HDL a more important risk factor. Although the mechanisms of LDL atherogenicity have been well elucidated, the exact mechanism by which HDL exerts its antiatherogenic effects remains unclear. One …

  Plasma concentration of HDL cholesterol in humans: relationship with whole-body cholesterol metabolism and with cholesterol metabolism in monocytes, AP.EMU

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