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(Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 2004;24:e144.)
© 2004 American Heart Association, Inc.

Letters to the Editor

Associations Among Plasma Lipoprotein Subfractions as Characterized by Analytical Capillary Isotachophoresis, Apolipoprotein E Phenotype, Alzheimer Disease, and Mild Cognitive Impairment

Bo Zhang; Akira Matsunaga; Keijiro Saku

Department of Cardiology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan

Seigo Nakano; Tatsuo Yamada

Department of Neurology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan

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To the Editor:

Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, and the central pathogenic event is the abnormal accumulation of amyloid ß–protein (Aß) in extracellular amyloid deposits and cerebral blood vessels.¹ AD is a complex and genetically heterogeneous disease. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a cognitive disorder in the transition between normal cognition and AD, is a known risk factor for AD, with a conversion rate of 10% per year.²

Apolipoprotein E (apoE), a lipid transporter, has been found to be contained in amyloid plaques. The apoE4 isoform or APOE 4 allele is associated with the development of AD¹ and an increased risk of MCI.³ Cholesterol has also been identified as a risk factor for AD^1,4 and MCI.⁵ A direct role of cholesterol in the pathogenesis of AD has been suggested by studies in transgenic animal models of AD: cholesterol feeding increases Aß accumulation and accelerates AD-related pathology,⁶ whereas cholesterol lowering with statin reduces Aß pathology.⁷

Although CAD is a prevalent finding in AD,⁸ whether or not plasma lipoprotein subfractions are associated with MCI and AD has not yet been investigated. The separation and determination of lipoprotein subfractions are generally labor-intensive and time-consuming. Recently, however, the research group of Schmitz and coworkers developed a new automated technique to separate and quantify lipoprotein subfractions in minutes using capillary isotachophoresis (cITP).^9,10 Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the associations among lipoprotein subfractions as determined by cITP, apoE phenotype, MCI, and AD.

Twenty-eight patients with MCI, 47 patients with AD, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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