Cholesterol not particle concentration mediates the atherogenic risk conferred by apolipoprotein B particles: a Mendelian randomization analysis.
Eur J Prev Cardiol
; 29(18): 2374-2385, 2022 12 21.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND AIMS:
The causal contribution of apolipoprotein B (apoB) particles to coronary artery disease (CAD) is established. We examined whether this atherogenic contribution is better reflected by non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C) or apoB particle concentration. METHOD ANDRESULTS:
We performed Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis using 235 variants as genetic instruments; testing the relationship between their effects on the exposures, non-HDL-C and apoB, and on the outcome CAD using weighted regression. Variant effect estimates on the exposures came from the UK Biobank (N = 376 336) and on the outcome from a meta-analysis of five CAD datasets (187 451 cases and 793 315 controls). Subsequently, we carried out sensitivity and replication analyses.In univariate MR analysis, both exposures associated with CAD (ßnon-HDL-C = 0.40, P = 2.8 × 10-48 and ßapoB = 0.38, P = 1.3 × 10-44). Adding effects on non-HDL-C into a model that already included those on apoB significantly improved the genetically predicted CAD effects (P = 3.9 × 10-5), while adding apoB into the model including non-HDL-C did not (P = 0.69). Thirty-five per cent (82/235) of the variants used as genetic instruments had discordant effects on the exposures, associating with non-HDL-C/apoB ratio at P < 2.1 × 10-4 (0.05/235). Fifty-one variants associated at genome-wide significance.CONCLUSION:
Many sequence variants have discordant effects on non-HDL-C and apoB. These variants allowed us to show that the causal mechanism underlying the relationship between apolipoprotein B particles and CAD is more associated with non-HDL-C than apoB particle concentration.Palavras-chave
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Doença da Artéria Coronariana
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Aterosclerose
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Ano de publicação:
2022
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