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The nature of the association between diet and serum lipids in the community: a twin study.
Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association - 1 Sept 2001
McCaffery J M, Poque-Geile M F, Muldoon M F, Debski T T, Wing R R, Manuck S B
Abstract excerpt
Diet is commonly thought to be an environmental influence on serum lipid concentrations. This study evaluated whether total caloric and fat intake predict total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), and triglyceride (TRIG) concentrations for environmental, as compared with genetic, reasons among 137 monozygotic and 67 dizygotic young adult twins....
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