The clofibrate saga: a retrospective commentary
The clofibrate saga: a retrospective commentary
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2125.2012.04282.x
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发表时间:
2012-12-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Oliver, Michael
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作者:
Oliver, Michael
BackgroundThe start of the story of clofibrate goes back to the early 1950s. Gofman, a physicist in the Berkeley Campus of the University of California, published a paper suggesting that patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) have high plasma concentrations of cholesterol [1]. These studies were based on ultracentrifugal analysis showing a distinctive lipoprotein pattern. Barr from New York confirmed this using a cold precipitation method [2]. George Boyd in Edinburgh developed a simple micromethod of analysis using paper electrophoresis [3] and in 1953 we published the first paper in Europe reporting that patients with CHD have higher concentrations of cholesterol, particularly the younger ones, when compared with an age-matched control group [4].