Published online before print July 26, 2004, doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000136819.93989.E1
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(Circulation. 2004;110:540-545.)
© 2004 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Increase in Serum Amyloid A Evoked by Dietary Cholesterol Is Associated With Increased Atherosclerosis in Mice
From the Departments of Medicine (K.E.L., T.O.M., S.W., K.D.O., A.C.) and Pathobiology (E.A.K.), University of Washington and The Hope Heart Institute (T.N.W.), Seattle, Wash.
Correspondence to Alan Chait, MD, Department of Medicine, Box 356426, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195-6426. E-mail achait{at}u.washington.edu
Received September 26, 2003; de novo received December 23, 2003; revision received April 1, 2004; accepted April 5, 2004.
Background— Elevated serum amyloid A (SAA) levels are associated with increased cardiovascular risk. SAA levels can be increased by dietary fat and cholesterol. Moreover, SAA can cause lipoproteins to bind extracellular vascular proteoglycans, a process that is critical in atherogenesis. Therefore, we hypothesized that diet-induced increases in SAA would increase atherosclerosis independent of their effect on plasma cholesterol levels.
Methods and Results— Female LDL-receptor–null (LDLR–/–) mice were fed high–saturated fat diets (21%, wt/wt), with or without added cholesterol (0.15%, wt/wt), for 10 weeks. Compared with chow-fed controls, the high-fat diets increased plasma SAA levels. Addition of cholesterol further increased SAA levels 2-fold (P<0.05) without further increasing plasma cholesterol levels. Addition of dietary cholesterol also increased atherosclerosis (P<0.05). Four lines of evidence suggest that SAA actually might cause atherosclerosis: (1) SAA levels when mice were euthanized correlated with the extent of atherosclerosis (r=0.49; P<0.02); (2) SAA levels after 5 weeks of diet correlated with the extent of atherosclerosis at 10 weeks (r=0.66; P<0.01); (3) binding of HDL from these animals to proteoglycans in vitro was related to the HDL-SAA content (r=0.65; P<0.01); and (4) immunoreactive SAA was present in lesion areas enriched with both proteoglycans and apolipoprotein A-I, the major HDL apolipoprotein.
Conclusions— Addition of cholesterol to a high-fat diet increased plasma SAA levels and atherosclerosis independent of an adverse effect on plasma lipoproteins, consistent with the hypothesis that SAA may promote atherosclerosis directly by mediating retention of SAA-enriched HDL to vascular proteoglycans.
Key Words: amyloid • inflammation • cholesterol • lipoproteins • diet
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