Triglycerides: risk factor or fellow traveler? - PubMed (original) (raw)

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Triglycerides: risk factor or fellow traveler?

J S Forrester. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2001 Jul.

Abstract

An unresolved issue in preventive cardiology is whether the serum triglyceride level is an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease and, as a direct practical consequence, whether it has value as a diagnostic test. Evidence published in the past year has contributed substantially to clarifying these issues. In this review, we discuss the data that bears upon the importance of triglycerides as a risk factor and the implications of recent clinical trials directed at lipid lowering. We then discuss the alternatives for triglyceride lowering therapy in the light of this new knowledge.

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