EFFECTS OF LIPOPROTEINS ON PLASMA VISCOSITY
EFFECTS OF LIPOPROTEINS ON PLASMA VISCOSITY
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DOI:
10.1016/0021-9150(81)90107-6
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
SMITH, FR
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作者:
SEPLOWITZ, AH;CHIEN, S;SMITH, FR
Patients with hypertriglyceridemia and mixed hyperlipidemia have mean plasma viscosities significantly higher than controls (P < 0.005). In a group of 70 hyperlipidemic patients and controls, plasma viscosity was correlated with plasma triglyceride concentration (r = 0.56, P < 0.01) and to a lesser extent with the concentration of plasma cholesterol (r = 0.29, P < 0.05). When isolated lipoprotein fractions were added to lipoprotein-free plasma in increasing concentration over a physiological range, a highly significant linear relationship between plasma viscosity and chylomicron concentrations (r = 0.98, P < 0.001) was apparent. When chylomicrons were removed by ultracentrifugation, viscosity returned to baseline levels. Added VLDL [very low density lioprotein] produced a lesser effect (r = 0.70, P < 0.001) and added L[low]DL, over the range of cholesterol concentration studied, had no influence on viscosity. Chylomicrons can increase plasma viscosity. Viscosity increases of the magnitude demonstrated may in turn alter blood flow and contribute to symptoms such as intermittent claudication. Chylomicron-induced increases in plasma viscosity and subsequent decreases in local pancreatic blood flow may be a factor involved in the known relationship between severe chylomicronemia and acute pancreatitis.