THE RATIO BETWEEN PHOSPHOLIPID AND THE CHOLESTEROLS IN PLASMA AS AN INDEX OF HUMAN ATHEROSCLEROSIS
Authors: R S JACKSON, C F WILKINSON
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1952)

Article1 December 1952THE RATIO BETWEEN PHOSPHOLIPID AND THE CHOLESTEROLS IN PLASMA AS AN INDEX OF HUMAN ATHEROSCLEROSISRAYMOND S. JACKSON, M.D., CHARLES F. WILKINSON JR., M.D., F.A.C.P.RAYMOND S. JACKSON, M.D., CHARLES F. WILKINSON JR., M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-37-6-1162 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAtherosclerosis has come to be recognized as a disease which is not an inevitable result of vascular aging, but rather an episodic process which may be to some extent reversible. Because of this, there have been many attempts to identify measurable abnormalities which could be employed to detect this tendency in its earliest stages.1-15 One of the most recent of these is the ratio between phospholipid and total cholesterol in the blood serum. 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BENJAMIN, M.D.Provocative aspects of lipotropic therapy in angina pectorisTHE RELATIVE MERITS OF SERUM LIPOPROTEIN AND CHOLESTEROL DETERMINATIONS IN ATHEROSCLEROSISTHE PHOSPHOLIPID-CHOLESTEROL RELATIONSHIP IN HUMAN PLASMA: ITS IMPLICATIONS IN THE ATHEROSCLEROSIS PROBLEM 1 December 1952Volume 37, Issue 6Page: 1162-1171KeywordsAgingAtherosclerosisBloodBlood plasmaCholesterolPhospholipidsVascular diseases ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 December 1952 PDF downloadLoading ...