Reduction of mortality rate in coronary atherosclerosis by a low cholesterol-low fat diet

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1951

Publication Title

American Heart Journal

ISSN

00028703

E-ISSN

10976744

Abstract

1. 1. One hundred patients with recent recovery from proved coronary thrombosis and myocardial infarction were studied over a three-year period as to the effect of a low cholesterol-low fat diet on the mortality and morbidity rates. 2. 2. Fifty consecutive patients were placed on a daily 20 to 25 Gm. fat diet, and fifty alternate control patients were observed on the "normal" prethrombosis diet. 3. 3. It was found that there was a trend toward a reduction in mortality and morbidity rates in coronary atherosclerotic patients on a 20 to 25 Gm. daily cholesterol-fat diet. © 1951.

Volume

42

Issue

4

First Page

538

Last Page

545

DOI

10.1016/0002-8703(51)90150-0

PubMed ID

14877748

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