Word: lipoproteins
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Later, in 1951, while working with Dr. Sidney Farber, professor of Pathology at Harvard, Dr. Uzman isolated and described the lipoprotein in Gaucher's disease, an anemia of the spleen that runs in families and is particularly common among Jews...
...cholesterol values for the Japanese should read 160, 223 and 248 for the men in Japan, Hawaii and Los Angeles, respectively; not 120, 183 and 213, which are the values for beta lipoprotein cholesterol fraction only...
...first, this was put down to laboratory errors or diet infractions (one big executive temptation: the plentiful, high-calorie canapes at Washington cocktail parties)..Then it was found that in some men cholesterol and lipoprotein levels were highest during periods of great emotional stress. Investigation showed that lipoprotein levels were the first to rise when stress appeared, followed by a general rise in cholesterol level if it persisted. A check of the men turned up many cases in which stress seemed to be the only explanation for such fluctuations, and Dr. Groover believes that other cases may have gone undetected...