Dietary Fats, Carbohydrates and Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease

Most of the studies so far reported have been carried out with subjects whose levels of serum total cholesterol and, where reported, of triglycerides were well below those usually considered hyperlipidemic. So-called hyperlipidemias, for which Fredrickson et al.⁴⁵ have provided a useful classification, in effect are usually applied to persons representing the upper 5 per cent or 10 per cent of the general population (Fig. 1 and Table 1). The widespread prevalence of atherosclerosis and its clinical complications in developed societies and a broader view of blood lipid distributions in various populations, including the age-related increase in American society, suggest . . .