Inflammation-Dependent Association of Lipoprotein (a) with Cardiovascular and Cancer Mortality

Yiwen Zhang,1 Wei Wang,2,* Lili Xu,1 Zhexun Lian,3 Jiale Huang,4 Yaowei Chang,5 Junjie Guo,3 Yangang Wang,1,* Kexiu Song,6 Hongwei Ji7,8,* 1Department of Endocrinology, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Hematology, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Cardiology, QingPu Branch of Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 6Department of International Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China; 7Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 8Department of Internal Medicine, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Yangang Wang, Department of Endocrinology, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China, Email wangyg@qdu.edu.cn Hongwei Ji, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Email hongweijicn@gmail.com