Clinical utility of inflammatory markers and advanced lipoprotein testing: Advice from an expert panel of lipid specialists

Journal of Clinical Lipidology - Tập 5 Số 5 - Trang 338-367 - 2011
Michael H. Davidson1, Christie M. Ballantyne2, Terry A. Jacobson3, Vera Bittner4, Lynne T. Braun5, Alan S. Brown6, W. Virgil Brown7, William C. Cromwell8, Ronald Goldberg9, James M. McKenney10, Alan T. Remaley11, Allan D. Sniderman12, Peter P. Tóth13, Sotirios Tsimikas14, Paul Ziajka15, Kevin C. Maki16, Mary R. Dicklin16
1University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 515 North State Street, Suite 2700, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
2Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
3Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA
4University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA;
5Rush University Medical Center Chicago IL USA
6Loyola University, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL USA
7Emory University School of Medicine (Emeritus), Atlanta, GA, USA
8Lipoprotein and Metabolic Disorders Institute, Raleigh, NC, USA and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
9University of Miami - Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA;
10National Clinical Research, Inc., and Virginia Commonwealth University (Emeritus), Manakin Sabot, VA, USA
11National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
12McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
13Sterling Rock Falls Clinic, Ltd., University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, IL, USA
14University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
15Florida Lipid Institute, Winter Park, FL, USA
16Provident Clinical Research, Glen Ellyn, IL, USA

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