Relationships between Body Mass Index and Lipids in Elderly Women with Primary Hyperlipidemia-A One-Year Follow-up Study after Introduction of Dietary Change / 日本農村医学会雑誌
Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
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: 755-759, 1997.
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in English
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| ID: wpr-373602
ABSTRACT
We investigated the relationship between obesity and lipids in elderly women in a rural area with primary hyperlipidemia after one year of follow-up. Thirty women aged 61 to 89 (mean age, 72.5 years) with primary hyperlipidemia were enrolled in this study. They were all given lipid-lowering dietary by a dietitian (s) and general physicians at the time of entry.<BR>Total serum cholesterol (TCHO), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), blood pressure and body mass index (BMI) did not change significantly over the past one year however, triglyceride level (TG) significantly decreased during the period. BMI at the time of enrollment was not significantly correlated with the reduction rate of TCHO or HDL-C, but was significantly correlated with the reduction rate of TG.<BR>Thus, BMI may be useful as a predictor of TG change when only dietary therapy is given to eldery suburban women.
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Prognostic study
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English
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Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
Year:
1997
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