Treatment effects on serum lipoprotein lipids, apolipoproteins and low density lipoprotein particle size and relationships of lipoprotein variables to progression of coronary artery disease in the Bezafibrate Coronary Atherosclerosis Intervention Trial (BECAIT)
Giacomo Ruotolo, MD, PhD*,
Carl-G.öran Ericsson, MD, PhD||,
Cristina Tettamanti, BSc*,
Fredrik Karpe, MD, PhD*
,
Lars Grip, MD, PhD
,
Bertil Svane, MD, PhD
,
Jan Nilsson, MD, PhD*
,
Ulf de Faire, MD, PhD
and
Anders Hamsten, MD, PhD*
* Atherosclerosis Research Unit, King Gustaf V Research Institute, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Department of Emergency and Cardiovascular Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Department of Cardiology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Department of Thoracic Radiology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
|| Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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Figure 1 LDL peak particle size (upper panel) and percentage small LDL (<22.8 nm) of total LDL (lower panel) in the two study groups (circles, placebo; squares, bezafibrate). LDL peak particle size and percentage small LDL were measured at baseline and at 2 and 5 years. Values are mean ± SD. Data were analyzed by two-way repeated measures ANOVA (LDL peak particle size: group p = 0.27, time p = 0.0003, interaction p = 0.001; percentage small LDL: group p = 0.76, time p < 0.0001, interaction p < 0.0001). *p < 0.05, ***p < 0.001 between values of the two study groups.
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