APOB and coronary artery disorder: The strength of the associations of ApoB with CHD in PROCARDIS were comparable with those with CVD in the Bruneck study and with previous studies.6–8,17 The associations of the triglyceride-related apolipoproteins with CHD in PROCARDIS were also consistent with the Bruneck study, but the 10-fold larger number of cases in PROCARDIS confirmed the previously reported findings and demonstrated their independence from conventional lipids.