{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,2]],"date-time":"2026-09-02T20:41:25Z","timestamp":1788381685885,"version":"build-2803163510"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences","issue":"1","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Pak J Med Sci"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Objective: Gallbladder stones are common in the Western world, and 70% to 80% of gallstones are cholesterol stones. This study investigates the effects of serum cholesterol, LDL, and HDL levels on gallstone cholesterol concentration.Methodology: The gallstones of 75 patients with cholelithiasis were examined using spectrophotometry.Results: High serum cholesterol and LDL levels were associated with high cholesterol stone rates (86.7% vs. 40.0%, P &lt; 0.001; 75.0% vs. 48.9%, P &lt; 0.05, respectively). Similarly, high serum cholesterol and LDL levels were correlated with high gallbladder stone cholesterol concentrations (63.6% vs. 44.4%, P &lt; 0.001; 62.3% vs. 46.0%, P &lt; 0.001, respectively). In contrast, low serum HDL levels do not seem to affect the occurrence of gallbladder cholesterol stones (60.0% vs. 58.3%, respectively, P &gt; 0.05) or gallbladder stone cholesterol concentrations (50.8% vs. 52.4%, respectively, P &gt; 0.05).Conclusion: The relationship between cholesterol, LDL, and HDL levels and cholesterol gallstone formation is multifactorial and complex and is also dependent on other individual properties.doi: http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.291.2798How to cite this:Atamanalp SS, Keles MS, Atamanalp RS, Acemoglu H, Laloglu E. The effects of serum cholesterol, LDL, and HDL levels on gallstone cholesterol concentration. Pak J Med Sci 2013;29(1):187-190. \u00a0\u00a0doi: http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.291.2798This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.12669\/pjms.291.2798","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,17]],"date-time":"2013-01-17T13:59:53Z","timestamp":1358431193000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["The effects of serum cholesterol, LDL, and HDL levels on gallstone cholesterol concentration"],"prefix":"10.12669","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"Sabri Selcuk","family":"Atamanalp","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mevlut Said","family":"Keles","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Refik Selim","family":"Atamanalp","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hamit","family":"Acemoglu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Esra","family":"Laloglu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"4935","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,19]]},"container-title":["Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/download\/17571\/4348","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/download\/17571\/4348","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,9]],"date-time":"2026-05-09T21:22:18Z","timestamp":1778361738000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/view\/17571"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,19]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,2,23]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.291.2798","relation":{},"ISSN":["1681-715X","1682-024X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1681-715X","type":"electronic"},{"value":"1682-024X","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,19]]}}}