Conclusions from the VA-HIT study

August 1999 was a milestone for high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol research. First proposed as a risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) in the 1950s, it was not until 1975, when Miller and Miller 1 Miller GJ, Miller NE. Plasma-high-density-lipoprotein concentration and development of ischaemic heart-disease. Lancet 1975;:16–19. Google Scholar published an influential article detailing how HDL might be involved in reverse...