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Letter to the Editor
Impact of Age Factor in COVID-19 Infectivity in Population of Nowshera KP, Pakistan
Hamzullah Khan
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2020.93813

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Physician’s Satisfaction Regarding Plan of Care among Physicians in Abha City, Saudi Arabia, 2018
Maher Abdulkarim Alsmail, Safar A. Alsaleem, Bandar Alasmari
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DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2020.93804


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Adult Allergic Rhinitis in Aseer, Southwestern Region of Saudi Arabia: Prevalence and its Concomitant Aspects
Badr Al-Ghamdi
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DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2020.93805

Population and Community Health

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Knowledge and attitude of dyslipidemia among school teachers in Ahad Rufaidah, Aseer Region, Saudi Arabia
Mansoor Abdullah Al-Lajhar, Mohammad S. Al-Shahrani, Naif M. Alqahtani
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DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2020.93806

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The safest values of high density lipoproteins in the plasma
Mehmet Rami Helvaci, Abdulrazak Abyad, Lesley Pocock
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DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2020.93807

Clinical Research and Methods

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Intra-articular injection of hyaluronic acid in patients with knee osteoarthritis in Aden, Yemen
Abdulsalam Abdullah Hadi Mohsen
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DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2020.93808

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Minor Surgery in Primary Care; Audit Report
Muhammad Hameed, Shabana Shaheen
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Food allergies in atopic dermatitis
Idris Akinwande, Kazeem Salako
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Parkinson’s Disease: An update on Pathophysiology, Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Management.
Part 1 : Background and Epidemiology

Abdulrazak Abyad
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Congenital Acinar Dysplasia: A Familial Cause of Severe Primary Lung Hypoplasia
Ashwag Asiri, Ali Alsuheel Asseri , Ahmed Aldurah, Eman Saeed Sallem , Bayan Hanif Al-Qahtani
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May 2020 - Volume 18, Issue 5

The safest values of high density lipoproteins in the plasma

(1) Specialist of Internal Medicine, MD
(2) Middle-East Academy for Medicine of Aging, MD
(3) medi+WORLD International

Corresponding author:
:Dr Mehmet Rami Helvaci,
07400, ALANYA, Turkey
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Email: mramihelvaci@hotmail.com

Received: March 2020; Accepted: April 2020; Published: May 1, 2020. Citation: Mehmet Rami Helvaci, Abdulrazak Abyad, Lesley Pocock. The safest values of high density lipoproteins in the plasma. World Family Medicine. 2020; 18(5): 38-44 DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2020.93807

Abstract


Background: We tried to understand the safest values of high density lipoproteins (HDL) in the plasma.

Methods: Patients with plasma HDL values lower than 40 mg/dL were collected into the first, lower than 50 mg/dL into the second, and 50 mg/dL and higher into the third groups, respectively.

Results: The study included 256 cases (153 females and 103 males), totally. Parallel to the highest HDL values, the mean age, body mass index (BMI), fasting plasma glucose (FPG), low density lipoproteins (LDL), white coat hypertension (WCH), hypertension (HT), and diabetes mellitus (DM) were the highest in the third group. Whereas coronary heart disease (CHD) was the highest in the first group in contrast to the lowest HDL value. On the other hand, BMI, FPG, DM, and CHD were the lowest in the second group with the HDL values between 40 and 50 mg/dL in the plasma.

Conclusions: The highest mean age, BMI, FPG, LDL, WCH, HT, and DM parallel to the highest HDL, and the highest CHD in contrast to the lowest HDL values may show initially positive but eventually negative acute phase protein functions of HDL in the metabolic syndrome. The lowest BMI, FPG, DM, and CHD in the second group can also support the idea. So the safest values of HDL may be in between 40 and 50 mg/dL in the plasma.

Key words: High density lipoproteins, low density lipoproteins, negative acute phase proteins,
triglycerides, body mass index, smoking, metabolic syndrome

 







 


 

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