Blood Coagulation After a Fat Meal

Blood coagulation after a fat meal.

The influence of meals on the coagulability of blood was studied in experiments on 20 men with parallel nonfed controls. The whole blood clotting time in siliconized tubes was not altered by a low-fat meal or by continued absence of a meal, but it was significantly shortened after a meal containing 100 Gm. of butterfat. The degree of lipemia did not determine the degree of shortening. There was...

Further experiences with blood coagulation after fat meals and carbohydrate meals.

There have been conflicting reports as to whether the ingestion of fat increases the tendency for the blood to clot, and hence, by implication, the risk of thromboembolic complications in man. In this study the effect of a single meal containing a large amount of fat was compared with that of a practically purely carbohydrate isocaloric meal. Under carefully controlled conditions the clotting t...

Studies of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis in patients with idiopathic hyperlipemia and primary hypercholesteremia before and after a fatty meal.

Blood Coagulation Changes in Rats Fed High Fat Diets.

• For the past fift3 j-ears investigators have attempted to show a relationship between high lipid diets and the production of atherosclerosis and thrombosis. Recently interest has shifted from a consideration of diets in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis to a study of their association with alterations in the levels of coagulation factors as a possible cause of thrombus formation, a possibil...

Could light meal jeopardize laboratory coagulation tests?

BACKGROUND Presently the necessity of fasting time for coagulation tests is not standardized. Our hypothesis is that this can harm patient safety. This study is aimed at evaluating whether a light meal (i.e. breakfast) can jeopardize laboratory coagulation tests. MATERIALS AND METHODS A blood sample was firstly collected from 17 fasting volunteers (12 h). Immediately after blood collection, t...