• Thorax · May 2017

    Cholesterol, lipoproteins and subclinical interstitial lung disease: the MESA study.

    • Anna J Podolanczuk, Ganesh Raghu, Michael Y Tsai, Steven M Kawut, Eric Peterson, Rajiv Sonti, Daniel Rabinowitz, Craig Johnson, and R Graham Barr.
    • Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
    • Thorax. 2017 May 1; 72 (5): 472-474.

    AbstractWe investigated associations of plasma lipoproteins with subclinical interstitial lung disease (ILD) by measuring high attenuation areas (HAA: lung voxels between -600 and -250 Hounsfield units) in 6700 adults and serum MMP-7 and SP-A in 1216 adults age 45-84 without clinical cardiovascular disease in Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. In cross-sectional analyses, each SD decrement in high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) was associated with a 2.12% HAA increment (95% CI 1.44% to 2.79%), a 3.53% MMP-7 increment (95% CI 0.93% to 6.07%) and a 6.37% SP-A increment (95% CI 1.35% to 11.13%), independent of demographics, smoking and inflammatory biomarkers. These findings support a novel hypothesis that HDL-C might influence subclinical lung injury and extracellular matrix remodelling.Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/.

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