Weight Gain and Serum Triglycerides in Normal Men

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  • MAMargaret J. Albrink
    Margaret J. Albrink
  • JMJ. Wister Meigs
    J. Wister Meigs
  • MGMorris A. Granoff
    Morris A. Granoff
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Abstract
RECENT reports from this laboratory1 , 2 and elsewhere3 4 5 of high serum triglyceride concentrations in patients with coronary-artery disease have focused attention on the significance of serum triglycerides in normal middle-aged persons. A previously reported study revealed that a triglyceride concentration of 5.4 milliequiv. per liter best separated the normal population from the subjects with coronary-artery disease.1 Five per cent of normal young men in their twenties had serum triglycerides above this limit. Between the ages of forty and sixty-nine, 35 per cent exceeded this limit, and 82 per cent of patients with coronary-artery disease had triglycerides above 5.4 milliequiv. per liter. . . .

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