[Increased risk of death from coronary heart disease in men with low blood concentration of total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein cholesterol according to data from a prospective epidemiologic study in Moscow and Leningrad within the framework of Soviet-American cooperation]. / Povyshennyi risk smerti ot koronarnoi bolezni serdtsa u muzhchin s nizkoi kontsentratsiei v krovi obshchego kholesterina i kholesterina lipoproteidov nizkoi plotnosti po dannym prospektivnogo épidemiologichekogo issledovaniia v Moskve i Leningrade v ramkakh Sovetsko-Amerikanskogo sotrudnichestva.

The authors provide the results of a prospective study carried out for almost 10 years among men who underwent screenings in 1975-1977 at an age of 40-59 years in Moscow and Leningrad (overall 6431 persons) with a purpose of analyzing potential causes of high risk of death from coronary heart disease in a group of subjects with hypocholesterolemia. Based on a mathematical-statistical analysis, variants of the interpretations of the indicated fact are presented.