APOE and atherosclerosis: Studying 40 early atherosclerosis patients without clinical cardiac events, authors reported that serum lutein was inversely associated with IL-6 and positively associated with IFN-γ, whereas zeaxanthin was related to expression of vascular adhesion molecules and ApoE, and lycopene were negatively correlated with vascular adhesion molecules and LDL (Xu et al., 2012).