New perspectives in cardiovascular risk reduction: focus on HDL

Submitted: November 25, 2015
Accepted: November 25, 2015
Published: November 25, 2015
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Cardiovascular diseases represent the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, mostly contributing to hospitalizations and health care costs. Dyslipidemias represent one of the major cardiovascular risk factor and its management, throughout life-style modifications and pharmacological interventions, has shown to reduce cardiac events. The risk of adverse cardiovascular events is related not only to elevated LDL blood levels, but also to decreased HDL concentrations, that exhibit protective effects in the development of atherosclerotic process. Aim of this review is to summarize current evidences about defensing effects of such lipoproteins and to show the most recent pharmacological strategies to reduce cardiovascular risk through the increase of their circulating levels.

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Paolillo, Stefania, Giuseppe Luca Della Ratta, Alice Vitagliano, Annapaola Cirillo, Elisabetta Lardino, Tiziana Formisano, Irma Fabiani, Angela Maria Pellegrino, Pietro Riello, and Pasquale Perrone Filardi. 2015. “New Perspectives in Cardiovascular Risk Reduction: Focus on HDL”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 80 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2013.88.