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Cholesterol, lipoproteins and subclinical interstitial lung disease: The MESA study

  • Anna J. Podolanczuk
  • , Ganesh Raghu
  • , Michael Y. Tsai
  • , Steven M. Kawut
  • , Eric Peterson
  • , Rajiv Sonti
  • , Daniel Rabinowitz
  • , Craig Johnson
  • , R. Graham Barr
  • , Karen Hinckley Stukovsky
  • , Eric A. Hoffman
  • , J. Jeffrey Carr
  • , Firas S. Ahmed
  • , David R. Jacobs
  • , Karol Watson
  • , Steven J. Shea
  • , David J. Lederer

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Abstract

We investigated associations of plasma lipoproteins with subclinical interstitial lung disease (ILD) by measuring high attenuation areas (HAA: lung voxels between -600 and -250 Hounsfield units) in 6700 adults and serum MMP-7 and SP-A in 1216 adults age 45-84 without clinical cardiovascular disease in Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. In cross-sectional analyses, each SD decrement in high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) was associated with a 2.12% HAA increment (95% CI 1.44% to 2.79%), a 3.53% MMP-7 increment (95% CI 0.93% to 6.07%) and a 6.37% SP-A increment (95% CI 1.35% to 11.13%), independent of demographics, smoking and inflammatory biomarkers. These findings support a novel hypothesis that HDL-C might influence subclinical lung injury and extracellular matrix remodelling.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)472-474
Number of pages3
JournalThorax
Volume72
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 27 2017

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The work is funded by the National Institutes of Health contracts HHSN268201500003I, N01-HC-95159, N01-HC-95160, N01-HC-95161, N01-HC-95162, N01-HC-95163, N01-HC-95164, N01-HC-95165, N01-HC-95166, N01-HC-95167, N01-HC-95168 and N01-HC-95169 and grants UL1-TR-000040, UL1-TR-001079, R01-HL-103676, RC1-HL100543, R01-HL-093081, R01-HL-077612, T32-HL-105323 and K24-HL-131937; by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation; and by the Rocco Guinta Research Fund.

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  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
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