SERUM-CHOLESTEROL IN NORMAL SUBJECTS IN DENMARK

Journal/Book: Reprinted from THE LANCET December 23 1961 pp. 1383-1385. 1961;

Abstract: ERLING LUND M.D. Copenhagen ASSISTANT SENIOR PHYSICIAN TORBEN GEILL M.D. Copenhagen MEDICAL DIRECTOR GERIATRIC HOSPITAL COPENHAGEN DENMARK P. H. ANDRESEN M.D. Copenhagen DIRECTOR OF THE BLOOD BANK BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL COPENHAGEN WE have studied the serum-cholesterol levels of a large number of healthy youngish people in Copenhagen. In Denmark few studies of serum-cholesterol have been made and they have involved a limited number of normal subjects: In a series of predominantly youngish normal subjects Teilum (1940) found the mean values were 169 mg. per 100 ml. for 165 males and 178 mg. per 100 ml. for 129 females. Brun (1940) studying 9 males and 11 females aged 19-40 found that the values ranged from 145 to 280 mg. per 100 ml. Kornerup's normal series (1948) comprised 117 adults (80 males and 37 females); among the males the mean value in the agerange 19-46 was 203 mg. per 100 ml. and in the age-range 50-82 it was 237 mg. per 100 ml. and for females the corresponding values were 225 and 235 mg. per 100 ml. Keys and Grande (1957) have reported the results of serum-cholesterol determinations an 95 males aged 40-49 in twenty-one population groups from various countries. The lowest mean values were found among Bantu Negroes (about 145 mg. per 100 ml.) and the highest in the United States (about 250 mg. per 100 ml.). ... schö

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