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Total and HDL cholesterol and risk of stroke. EUROSTROKE: a collaborative study among research centres in Europe

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Bots, M L, Elwood, P C, Nikitin, Y, Salonen, J T, Freire de Concalves, A, Inzitari, D, Sivenius, J, Benetou, V, Tuomilehto, J, Koudstaal, P J, Grobbee, D E·2002·Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
DOI 10.1136/jech.56.suppl_1.i19PMC PMC1765509
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Background: Controversy remains on the relation between serum lipids levels and stroke risk. This paper investigated the association of total and HDL cholesterol level to fatal and non-fatal, and haemorrhagic and ischaemic stroke in four European cohorts participating in EUROSTROKE. Methods: EUROSTROKE is a collaborative project among ongoing European cohort studies on incidence and risk factors of stroke. EUROSTROKE is designed as a nested case-control study. For each stroke case, two controls were sampled. Strokes were classified according to MONICA criteria or reviewed by a panel of four neurologists. At present, data on stroke and risk factors were available from cohorts in Cardiff (84 cases), Kuopio (74 cases), Rotterdam (157 cases), and Novosibirsk (79 cases). Results: Pooled analyses showed no significant association between total cholesterol and risk of stroke (odds ratio for increase of 1 mmol/l in cholesterol of 0.98 (95% CI 0.88 to 1.09)). Analyses for haemorrhagic stroke and cerebral infarction revealed odds ratios of 0.80 (95% CI 0.61 to 1.05) and 1.06 (95% CI 0.94 to 1.19), respectively. The association of HDL cholesterol to stroke was different in men compared with women. In men, there was a general trend towards a lower risk of stroke with an increase in HDL (odds ratio per 1 mmol/l increase in HDL cholesterol 0.68 (95% CI 0.40 to 1.16)). In women, however, an increase in HDL was associated with a significant increased risk of non-fatal stroke and of cerebral infarction (odds ratios of 2.46 (95% 0.1.20 to 5.04) and 2.52 (95% CI 1.15 to 5.50), respectively. The difference between men and women in the association of HDL with stroke seemed to differ mainly in smokers and never smokers, but not among ex smokers. Conclusion: This analysis of the EUROSTROKE project could not disclose an association of total cholesterol with fatal, non-fatal, haemorrhagic or ischaemic stroke. HDL cholesterol however, seemed to be related to stroke differently in men than in women.

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Bots, M. L., Elwood, P. C., Nikitin, Y., Salonen, J. T., Freire de Concalves, A., Inzitari, D., Sivenius, J., Benetou, V, Tuomilehto, J., Koudstaal, P. J., & Grobbee, D. E.
Affiliations
  • Erasmus MC (NL)
  • Cardiff University (GB)
  • University of Eastern Finland (FI)
  • University of Florence (IT)
  • Kuopio University Hospital (FI)
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
Corresponding author
Bots, M L
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Venue
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Publisher
BMJ
Published
2002-02
Volume
56
Issue
suppl 1
Pages
i19-i24
ISSN
  • 0141-7681 (ISSN-L)
  • 0143-005X
  • 1470-2738
DOI
10.1136/jech.56.suppl_1.i19
PMC
PMC1765509
OpenAlex
W2162736346
Cited by
143
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46
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3.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePub (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
  • RePub (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
Keywords
total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, stroke risk, hemorrhagic stroke, ischemic stroke, cerebral infarction, sex differences, smoking, serum lipids
MeSH terms
Adult, Aged, Cholesterol, Europe, Female, Humans, Cholesterol, HDL, Male, Middle Aged, Risk, Sex Factors, Multicenter Studies as Topic, Biomarkers, Odds Ratio, Databases, Factual, Stroke

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