Article
Plasma levels of lathosterol and phytosterols in relation to age, sex, anthropometric parameters, plasma lipids, and apolipoprotein E phenotype, in 160 Dutch families.
Metabolism: clinical and experimental - 1 Jun 1991
Kempen H J, de Knijff P, Boomsma D I, van der Voort H A, Gevers Leuven J A, Havekes L
Abstract excerpt
In this study, the relation of plasma levels of lathosterol (an indicator of whole body cholesterol synthesis) and plant sterols (indicator of cholesterol absorption) with age, sex, weight, height, plasma lipids, and lipoproteins, and with apolipoprotein (apo) E phenotype, was investigated in a g...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Anthropometry
- Apolipoproteins E
- Body Height
- Body Weight
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Cholesterol
- Cholesterol, HDL
- Cholesterol, LDL
- Female
- Humans
- Lipids
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Netherlands
- Phenotype