Serum apolipoprotein B level and other parameters of lipid metabolism in patients after myocardial infarction
Kulejewski, L.
Polski Tygodnik Lekarski 45(10-11): 207-209
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0032-3756 PMID: 2216941 Document Number: 354956
Total cholesterol, triglycerides, cholesterol HDL, and apolipoproteins B were determined in 117 patients including 87 patients with recent myocardial infarction. Cholesterol LDL was calculated from Friedewald-Frederickson 's equation. Calculated mean values of the above parameters of lipid metabolism were within normal values. In the group of patients with recent myocardial infarction the following subgroups were distinguished: male patients who under went myocardial infarction under 40 years of life (subgroup A), male patients who underwent myocardial infarction at the age over 40 years (subgroup B), and female patients (subgroup C). No statistically significant differences between male and female patients were noted. A sole lipid index differentiating subgroups A and B was serum apolipoprotein B level (1.5 g/L in subgroup A, and 1.16 g/L in subgroup B). Discrimination analysis has shown also a higher value of this parameter in distinguishing the subjects who underwent myocardial infarction in the young age.