Magnitude of dietary effects on plasma cholesterol concentration: role of sex and apolipoprotein E phenotype.

doi:10.1016/0021-9150(91)90210-t

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Magnitude of dietary effects on plasma cholesterol concentration: role of sex and apolipoprotein E phenotype.

Atherosclerosis - 1 Feb 1991

Savolainen M J, Rantala M, Kervinen K, Järvi L, Suvanto K, Rantala T, Kesäniemi Y A

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The effects of fat-controlled, low-cholesterol and high-fat, high-cholesterol diets pursued for 4 weeks on plasma lipids and lipoproteins were studied in 44 healthy middle-aged subjects (22 women and 22 men). All the calories were supplied from the hospital kitchen. When the subjects were switche...

Topics

Adult
Apolipoproteins E
Cholesterol
Cholesterol, Dietary
Cholesterol, HDL
Cholesterol, LDL
Female
Humans
Male
Phenotype
Sex Characteristics
Triglycerides

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