Plasma Lipids and Atherosclerosis

Plasma lipids and atherosclerosis.

Hyperlipidaemia may be defined as the presence of excess lipid in the blood. It may be classified according to the nature of the lipids which are increased. A classification of hyperlipidaemia based on the fasting levels of cholesterol and triglyceride allows of three possible abnormal groups, which are shown in table I together with the corresponding classification according to Fredrickson as ...

Glucose tolerance, plasma lipids and atherosclerosis.

Introduction The problem of atherosclerosis is one of great complexity. Clinically we are concerned with an end result arterial obstruction which is the resultant of a multitude of precursor mechanisms, some external, some internal, many of them interdependent and interacting. We may start with our particular area of study, but if we follow it through, it will often become confluent with others...

Serum Lipids and Atherosclerosis

That hyperlipemia may be responsible for atherosclerosis has long been hypothecated on the grounds of what might be termed circumstantial evidence. The first experimental proof of this concept was provided by Anitschkow's demonstration in 1913 that atheroma can be produced in rabbits by feeding cholesterol. In recent years similar lesions have been induced by similar methods in five other speci...

Lipids and atherosclerosis

Atherosclerotic vascular disease is the cause of heart attacks, stroke, aortic aneurysms, and peripheral vascular disease, which together represent the most frequent causes of death in the industrialized world. Indeed, the aging of the population and the 'westernization' of world diet is predicted to increase the impact of atherosclerosis worldwide over the next few decades despite continuing a...

Blood lipids and human atherosclerosis.