... Research Hospital, Konya/ Turkey. 2. Department of Cardiology, Meram Medical Faculty, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey. 3. Department of Biochemistry, Meram Medical Faculty, Selcuk University, ... Synchron Clinical System (Beckman Coulter, USA) automated clinical chemistry analyzer. The PLAC test is a turbidimetric immunoassay using two highly specific monoclonal antibodies against Lp-PLA2. ... Arousal-induced tachycardia, which generally corresponds to periods of high cardiac pre- and after-load and reduced myocardial oxygen de-livery at the termination of respiratory events, may provide...