Postprandial Lipemia in Health and in Ischemic Heart Disease

Abstract

IT has long been recognized that patients with ischemic heart disease may exhibit abnormalities in serum lipid patterns. Although cholesterol metabolism in ischemic heart disease has received a vast amount of study over the years, emphasis has only recently been placed on the possible role of abnormal triglyceride metabolism in this disorder. Albrink and Man¹ have described elevated fasting triglyceride levels in ischemic heart disease. Differences in serum triglyceride levels have recently been reported in racial groups with widely differing incidence of ischemic heart disease.² Brown et al.³ have shown that elevated cholesterol levels tend to be paralleled by an . . .