Weight Gain and Serum Triglycerides in Normal Men

Abstract

RECENT reports from this laboratory^{1 , 2} and elsewhere^{3 4 5} of high serum triglyceride concentrations in patients with coronary-artery disease have focused attention on the significance of serum triglycerides in normal middle-aged persons. A previously reported study revealed that a triglyceride concentration of 5.4 milliequiv. per liter best separated the normal population from the subjects with coronary-artery disease.¹ Five per cent of normal young men in their twenties had serum triglycerides above this limit. Between the ages of forty and sixty-nine, 35 per cent exceeded this limit, and 82 per cent of patients with coronary-artery disease had triglycerides above 5.4 milliequiv. per liter. . . .