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The link between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and lipids has been appreciated for a long time, but the individual role of specific lipids in predisposition to disease is constantly under question. Cardiovascular disease, including myocardial infarction (MI), heart failure, and stroke, represents the leading cause of mortality worldwide, accounting for half of the total number of deaths in the developed world (World Health Organization, 2002). CVD will result in 20.5 million deaths annually by 2020 (World Health Organization, 2002, Fig. 1), (Revkin et al. 2007). |
