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Takeichi S, Nakajima Y, Yukawa N, et al. Plasma triglyceride-rich lipoprotein remnants as a risk factor of 'Pokkuri disease'. Leg Med (Tokyo). 2001;3(2):84-94doi: 10.1016/s1344-6223(01)00010-4.
Takeichi, S., Nakajima, Y., Yukawa, N., Saito, T., Seto, Y., Huang, X. L., Kusakabe, T., Jin, Z. B., Hasegawa, I., Nakano, T., Saniabadi, A., Adachi, M., Ohara, N., Wang, T., & Nakajima, K. (2001). Plasma triglyceride-rich lipoprotein remnants as a risk factor of 'Pokkuri disease'. Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 3(2), 84-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1344-6223(01)00010-4
Takeichi, S, et al. "Plasma triglyceride-rich lipoprotein remnants as a risk factor of 'Pokkuri disease'." Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) vol. 3,2 (2001): 84-94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/s1344-6223(01)00010-4
Takeichi S, Nakajima Y, Yukawa N, Saito T, Seto Y, Huang XL, Kusakabe T, Jin ZB, Hasegawa I, Nakano T, Saniabadi A, Adachi M, Ohara N, Wang T, Nakajima K. Plasma triglyceride-rich lipoprotein remnants as a risk factor of 'Pokkuri disease'. Leg Med (Tokyo). 2001 Jun;3(2):84-94. doi: 10.1016/s1344-6223(01)00010-4. PMID: 12935528.
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Leg Med (Tokyo). 2001 Jun;3(2):84-94. doi: 10.1016/s1344-6223(01)00010-4.

Plasma triglyceride-rich lipoprotein remnants as a risk factor of 'Pokkuri disease'.

Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)

S Takeichi, Y Nakajima, N Yukawa, T Saito, Y Seto, X L Huang, T Kusakabe, Z B Jin, I Hasegawa, T Nakano, A Saniabadi, M Adachi, N Ohara, T Wang, K Nakajima

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  1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan. [email protected]

PMID: 12935528 DOI: 10.1016/s1344-6223(01)00010-4

Abstract

In our recent report, it remained unclear whether or not triglyceride-rich lipoprotein remnants (RLP) were associated with the risk of sudden coronary death in younger cases without coronary atherosclerosis that were detected in about 10% of all sudden coronary death cases in Japan. These cases were categorized as 'origin unknown, but suspected to be due to coronary spasm', the so called 'pokkuri disease' in Japan. The present study population consisted of 108 sudden death cases without coronary atherosclerosis [(pokkuri disease n=57) and non-cardiac sudden death (control n=51)] aged 20-69 years from Kanagawa prefecture in Japan. All individuals had died suddenly and unexpectedly, most had no significant history of medical conditions including cardiac symptoms and had not taken medications prior to death according to their medical records. All the autopsies were performed within 12 h after death. Plasma total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, RLP-C and RLP-TG, VLDL-C, LDL-C, HDL-C, apolipoproteins A-I, A-II, B, C-II, C-III, E, Lp (a) and homocysteine were measured in postmortem plasma samples. The TG-rich lipoprotein remnants measured as RLP-C and RLP-TG were significantly higher in pokkuri disease compared with controls both in fasting and postprandial states (P<0.05 and P<0.001), indicating that RLP-C and RLP-TG were the most significant risk factor in pokkuri disease among the parameters tested in this study. In conclusion the TG level in RLP (RLP-TG) appeared to be strongly associated with the risk of sudden death in the absence of coronary atherosclerosis (pokkuri disease).

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