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Abstract
Serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels have been evaluated in samples from fasting
males aged 20–59 in Northern (Brisighella), Central (Rome) and Southern (Pozzuoli)
Italy.
Regularly performed quality controls between laboratories assured comparability of
data.
A statistically significant difference of mean serum cholesterol and triglyceride
levels was observed for most age-groups in the 3 different areas, lower values being
found in the southern population as compared to the central and northern ones.
These results support previous findings and the thesis that large differences in blood
lipid levels may still exist even within the same country and that they at least in
part may be culturally determined in connection with different dietary habits.
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Article Info
Publication History
Accepted:
June 6,
1978
Received in revised form:
June 2,
1978
Received:
February 20,
1978
Footnotes
☆The work in Rome has been done within the Roman Project of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, conducted in cooperation with the Institutions to which the authors belong and the Istituto Italiano di Medicina Sociale, Rome.
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© 1978 Published by Elsevier Inc.
