{"title":"Leveraging drug-target Mendelian randomization for tailored lipoprotein-lipid lowering.","authors":"Eloi Gagnon, Benoit J Arsenault","doi":"10.1097/MOL.0000000000000977","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>The study of naturally occurring genetic variation in human populations has laid the foundation for proprotein converts subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibitors, and more recently new classes of lipid-lowering drugs such as lipoprotein(a) inhibitors and lipoprotein lipase pathway activators. These emerging therapies lower plasma lipoprotein-lipid levels that are not adequately managed by traditional low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol-lowering medications. By targeting different risk factors, these therapies could help manage the important residual cardiovascular risk of LDL cholesterol medications.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>We review the latest insights into the pharmacological and genetic modulation of these new therapeutic targets. We highlight that the drugs remarkably recapitulate the lipid effects observed in genetic studies. In addition to lowering lipoprotein-lipid levels, robust genetic evidence support that these drugs may prevent cardiometabolic outcomes.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>Emerging lipid-lowering therapies could launch a new era for preventive medicine in which treatments are optimally tailored to patient's lipoprotein-lipid profiles.</p>","PeriodicalId":11109,"journal":{"name":"Current opinion in lipidology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Current opinion in lipidology","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MOL.0000000000000977","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Purpose of review: The study of naturally occurring genetic variation in human populations has laid the foundation for proprotein converts subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibitors, and more recently new classes of lipid-lowering drugs such as lipoprotein(a) inhibitors and lipoprotein lipase pathway activators. These emerging therapies lower plasma lipoprotein-lipid levels that are not adequately managed by traditional low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol-lowering medications. By targeting different risk factors, these therapies could help manage the important residual cardiovascular risk of LDL cholesterol medications.
Recent findings: We review the latest insights into the pharmacological and genetic modulation of these new therapeutic targets. We highlight that the drugs remarkably recapitulate the lipid effects observed in genetic studies. In addition to lowering lipoprotein-lipid levels, robust genetic evidence support that these drugs may prevent cardiometabolic outcomes.
Summary: Emerging lipid-lowering therapies could launch a new era for preventive medicine in which treatments are optimally tailored to patient's lipoprotein-lipid profiles.
期刊介绍:
With its easy-to-digest reviews on important advances in world literature, Current Opinion in Lipidology offers expert evaluation on a wide range of topics from six key disciplines including nutrition and metabolism, genetics and molecular biology, and hyperlipidaemia and cardiovascular disease. Published bimonthly, each issue covers in detail the most pertinent advances in these fields from the previous year. This is supplemented by a section of Bimonthly Updates, which deliver an insight into new developments at the cutting edge of the disciplines covered in the journal.