study of physiological variation of serum cholesterol and HDL cholesterol, fractions in healthy Egyptians of different age groups

ABSTRACT

It has been repeatedly demonstrated that elevated serum cholesterol is a significant risk factor in CVD [cardiovascular disease]. Low density lipoproteins [LDL] carry the majority of the total serum cholesterol and are considered to be the atherogenic, while the high density lipoproteins contribute a modes and relatively fixed portion of cholesterol to the total serum cholesterol pool, and there is strong evidence that HDL are antiatherogenic. In this work evaluation of the blood serum total cholesterol and HDL cholesterol fraction was carried out in healthy Egyptians of different age groups, and the significance of the findings have been discussed