“…Our study was aimed to link miRNA regulation with lipid overload and the immunoinflammatory mechanism of AS. Many recent studies have found that miR-29a was involved in numerous biological processes, including AS (Liu et al, 2017), hepatocellular carcinoma (Parpart et al, 2014), myocardial fibrosis (Dai et al, 2014), glucose handling (Dooley et al, 2016), and so on. Nowadays, researchers have found that plasma miR-29a was a new biomarker that could play a role in the pathophysiology of AS (Hulsmans and Holvoet, 2013;Huang et al, 2016;Liu et al, 2017).…”