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Association between ethnicity and obesity with high-density lipoprotein (HDL) function and subclass distribution

Overview of attention for article published in Lipids in Health and Disease, May 2016
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Title
Association between ethnicity and obesity with high-density lipoprotein (HDL) function and subclass distribution
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Lipids in Health and Disease, May 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12944-016-0257-9
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Nicholas J. Woudberg, Julia H. Goedecke, Dee Blackhurst, Miguel Frias, Richard James, Lionel H. Opie, Sandrine Lecour

Abstract

Obesity and low high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) levels are associated with cardiovascular risk. Surprisingly, despite a greater prevalence of obesity and lower HDL concentrations than white women, black South African women are relatively protected against ischaemic heart disease. We investigated whether this apparent discrepancy may be related to different HDL function and subclass distribution in black and white, normal-weight and obese South African women (n = 40). HDL functionality was assessed by measuring paraoxonase (PON) activity, platelet activating factor acetylhydrolase (PAF-AH) activity, Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) and quantification of the expression of vascular cell adhesion molecule in endothelial cells. PON-1 and PAF-AH expression was determined in isolated HDL and serum using Western blotting. Levels of large, intermediate and small HDL subclasses were measured using the Lipoprint® system. PON activity was lower in white compared to black women (0.49 ± 0.09 U/L vs 0.78 ± 0.10 U/L, p < 0.05), regardless of PON-1 protein levels. Obese black women had lower PAF-AH activity (9.34 ± 1.15 U/L vs 13.89 ± 1.21 U/L, p <0.05) and HDL-associated PAF-AH expression compared to obese white women. Compared to normal-weight women, obese women had lower large HDL, greater intermediate and small HDL; an effect that was more pronounced in white women than black women. There were no differences in antioxidant capacity or anti-inflammatory function across groups. Our data show that both obesity and ethnicity are associated with differences in HDL functionality, while obesity was associated with decreases in large HDL subclass distribution. Measuring HDL functionality and subclass may, therefore, be important factors to consider when assessing cardiovascular risk.

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Unknown 76 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 20%
Student > Bachelor 11 14%
Researcher 9 12%
Student > Postgraduate 7 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 8%
Other 13 17%
Unknown 15 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 7%
Sports and Recreations 3 4%
Other 10 13%
Unknown 20 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 December 2023.
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#3,536,208
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#7
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