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SUBMITTER: Degoricija V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6591134 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Degoricija Vesna V Potočnjak Ines I Gastrager Michaela M Pregartner Gudrun G Berghold Andrea A Scharnagl Hubert H Stojakovic Tatjana T Tiran Beate B Marsche Gunther G Frank Saša S
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 20181219
The link between HDL subclasses and the prognosis of cardiovascular diseases remains controversial. We thus evaluated the prognostic value of the HDL subclasses 3 and 2 cholesterol (HDL3-C, HDL2-C) as well as of total HDL-C for 3-month mortality in acute heart failure (AHF) patients. The serum levels of HDL3-C and total HDL-C were determined by detergent-based homogeneous assay. HDL2-C was computed by the difference between total HDL-C and HDL3-C. Out of the 132 analyzed patients, 35 (26.5%) die ...[more]