Abdominal obesity with hypertriglyceridaemia, lipoprotein(a) and apolipoprotein A-I determine marked cardiometabolic risk

Abstract

Background Risks for coronary heart disease (CHD) and diabetes (T2DM) of the hypertriglyceridemic waist' phenotype (HtgW) warrant further investigation. We studied this issue and whether partial proinflammatory conversion of apolipoprotein (apo) A-I by lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a codeterminant.