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HDL cholesterol—new insights

Nature Reviews Endocrinology volume 7, page 188 (2011)Cite this article

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However, several reports have raised doubts about whether all HDLs have the same function and whether measures of HDL function might be more predictive of cardiovascular disease risk than levels of HDL cholesterol.

Together with George H. Rothblat (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), Daniel J. Rader (University of Pennsylvania) had been working on cholesterol efflux capacity—the ability of an individual's HDL to extract cholesterol from macrophages—and asked if this efflux capacity is associated with cardiovascular disease even after adjusting for HDL cholesterol levels.

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