Associations between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and both stroke and coronary heart disease in the Asia Pacific region.

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In this paper, the authors compiled individual participant data from 25 cohort studies that included a sample of about 80,000 subjects followed for a period of 6.8 years. This study, also called the Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration (APCSC), includes individual studies from Asia and Australia. The authors concluded that HDL cholesterol is related to risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in the Asian Pacific population and that a lower cholesterol/HDL cholesterol ratio is associated with a reduced risk of CHD.