Cholesterol efflux capacity is an independent predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients with coronary artery disease: A prospective cohort study

C Liu, Y Zhang, D Ding, X Li, Y Yang, Q Li, Y Zheng… - Atherosclerosis, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Although diminished cholesterol efflux capacity is positively related with
prevalent coronary artery disease, its prognostic value for incident cardiovascular events
remains a topic of debate. This work aims to investigate the association between cholesterol
efflux capacity and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients with coronary artery
disease. Methods and Results We measured cholesterol efflux capacity at baseline in 1737
patients with coronary artery disease from the Guangdong Coronary Artery Disease Cohort …