Epidemiological investigation of males aged 20-59 years in Frunze has shown atherogenic tendency of age dynamics of blood lipid level. The character of the nutrition of the population studied proved to be as a whole atherogenic due to imbalance with respect to the main food substances. The shifts detected in the parameters of nutrition and blood lipids correlate well with rather high incidence of coronary heart disease among the population investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe relationship between the nutrition character and blood lipid parameters was studied in a male population aged 40-59 years in Frunze. It was established that the levels of total cholesterol, low- and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the natives were lower, while those of triglycerides and very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol higher than in the nonnatives. At the same time the correlation values of atherogenic and antiatherogenic lipoproteins in the comparable groups were equally high.
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