Serum Triglycerides in Health and in Ischemic Heart Disease

Abstract

SINCE 1959, when Albrink and Man¹ suggested that elevated serum triglyceride levels might be related to the pathogenesis of ischemic heart disease, several investigators^{2 3 4 5 6} have measured the lipid in health and in this disease. No information is available on the possible value of elevated triglyceride levels in predicting the occurrence of the disease in apparently healthy men. Accordingly, in this study, serum triglyceride and cholesterol levels were measured in 1851 fasting middle-aged men who remained under clinical observation for the next four years (1959–1964). It was thus possible to relate triglyceride and cholesterol levels to both the incidence and the . . .